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Today is Friday, July 11th, and we are at the finale of Chill Week, boys.

It's been a hell of a week.

Happy Free Slurpee Day.

Happy Flurry.

7-Eleven.

Yeah.

There we go.

That's huge for everyone.

Yep.

So we're out here in Tahoe.

Great week.

Great week.

We crushed it.

So chill.

I feel like we had a great chill time, made some great videos, did some great interviews.

And also we announced that we're writing a book.

Yeah, Ultimate Future Us Problem.

Oh.

So announcing that you're writing a book is the funnest part of writing a book.

Oh, yeah.

Now we got to write a book.

Yeah.

And you know us.

If you've listened to part of my take over the years, you know that a couple things about us.

Number one, we love to read.

It's like our favorite thing.

Yep.

Number two, we're very punctual with following through on every single commitment that we ever make.

And promises.

He hasn't done the dingers only thing.

Yep.

So, Max, you don't need to grab the mic.

It's okay.

It's just a fact that you haven't done the punishment.

People are heckling him, by the way.

There was a guy yesterday.

Oh, no.

Whatever you do,

don't do that.

He's like, what is Max pitching you see him and don't ask him why he's not doing the

no

the guy asked me and i he's like when's max pitching i was like oh he's right there go ask him and he went up to him when's max pitching but yeah we we love to read and so we want to we want to share that joy with the uh the awls but no we we've been approached several times over the years to do a book we've taken a lot of meetings and we've ended up canceling the books at the last minute several times which always feels great to do yes um but this year it's going to be the 10th year anniversary next year so going up into next year we have to start working on a book it felt like it would be the right time to do it yeah 10 years of pardon my take uh it's been crazy it's been awesome and we're like hey we didn't want to write a book uh

yeah i mean i i think there's been like three or four times pft and i have taken meetings about books and we've always just been like no we don't want to do this it's like stupid we don't want to have uh be like hey go buy our book but then it's like 10 years that's that's a lot of history that's a lot of stories that we're going to tell uh a lot of memories maybe some unreleased photos, all that type of stuff.

Hank can empty the vault.

Yeah, Hank's going to empty the vault.

Hank's going to write an entire chapter without the use of autocorrect.

Yeah, it seems like you guys have just been already like pawning off this book.

You're like, oh, this person's going to write a chapter.

This person's going to write a chapter.

This person's going to write a chapter.

I woke up this morning and we had a text from our good friend Scott Van Pelt to PFT and I.

He's like, congrats on the book.

And by the way, we have not written a single word.

We have not done anything.

So there is no congrats right now.

But I immediately replied.

I felt felt good to hear that.

I was like, yeah, yeah, you're right, Scott.

I immediately replied to hard work.

I immediately replied to Scott and I was like, you know that you have to write a chapter for us.

So he's in.

It's like somebody congratulating you because your wife's pregnant.

Yeah.

It's like, yep, I did it.

Yeah, look at me.

There we go.

Book.

We wrote a book.

But yeah, no, we are going to write the majority of the book.

We have a ghostwriter.

He's going to talk with us, then write some of the book.

Then we're going to write some of the book.

Then we're going to interview the ghostwriter and write a chapter of that in the book.

But he has, the ghostwriter is going to have to write the chapter about himself

after interviewing us about our interview with the ghostwriter.

Correct.

But no, I think instead of, you know how we used to do back in the day, do you wash your apples to every guest?

I think we have to add a question to every interview.

Will you write a chapter in our book?

Yes.

To every guest.

Yes.

Yeah, it's going to be the dumbest book ever created.

And it's not going to be, it is.

Like, I don't want to, we're not going to write like a

tell-all that's like super serious.

It's going to be stupid.

I had the idea yesterday, like every 20, 25 pages will be just a different quarterback kneeling in victory formation, letting you know that we're trying to run out the clock to the end of the book and just get as many pages, you know, in this book.

Yeah, we do want to include some good stuff in there.

Oh, we're definitely going to include some stuff.

You will not

take, like, we're going to take being lazy very seriously when it comes to writing.

It's going to be fun.

There's going to be some, like, we're going to have some of the people that mean a lot to us.

They won't have to write full chapters, but we'll have them interviewed, tell them, they'll be able to tell their side of it um but yeah it's going to be done we don't want it to be we want it to be dumb yep we want it to be stupid uh big font double spaced word searches maybe crossword puzzles there might be a chapter that's just a full it's a full chapter of just indentation a maze yeah where it's just like the it's blank page blank page and then it's the start of the paragraph end of the chapter yeah no it's gonna be fun to do i think uh excited to get into it but again we're saying that as two guys that have not started writing the book yet yes correct and i look forward to the challenge Yes, we do.

All right.

What do we have?

So get excited.

It's going to be probably next, late next summer.

Yeah.

What?

What was that, Hank?

What was that, Hank?

Well, here's the problem.

We actually do have deadlines that they like.

Yeah.

They're really everything you guys just described.

Nothing sounds like next summer.

No, it's going to have to be next summer.

It has to be.

There's deadlines.

And they like...

I feel like people miss deadlines.

We're going to miss deadlines?

You know what they do with the publishing industry if you don't hit a deadline?

I have no, I have they kill you.

That's why they call it a deadline.

Yeah.

Hank and I could be like the last people on the planet to know anything about the publishing industry.

That's why it's a deadline.

Well, guess what?

The third and fourth people who know like we don't know anything.

We've just taken a couple.

All I know is we've taken a few meetings with people that feel like they're way more adult than us.

And I don't want to disappoint those people.

That's fair to say, right?

I think that's completely fair to say.

Like people with their shit together are going to be like, hey, we need this.

And then we're going to have to, we're going to get to a fork of the road where PFD and I just stop responding to these people and pretend that we never said anything about this and never did anything and have to give back the money, or we're going to actually have to write a book.

That will be the interesting point.

You might have to delete this podcast at some point.

It's just, did Patrick show?

It's like, we never said that.

Yeah, actually.

We never said that.

Then we'll get,

so many people congratulate us on not having to write a book.

We'd probably hear more from those people.

Dude, we should just...

Hey, you know what?

Here's the other announcement.

You thought about canceling the book.

No, no, no, no.

I'm thinking something different.

I thought, because

I thought about it right now.

No.

And

no.

You want to just say fuck it?

No, no, no.

I was going to go one more.

Think about it.

We wrote a movie.

It's going to come out in a couple years.

So everyone should congratulate us.

We should just get congratulations for shit we're never going to do.

We're going to talk about that.

It's going to be a movie based on the book.

Yeah, right.

We opened a restaurant.

Congratulations, Sauce.

Okay.

I'm kind of addicted to just getting congratulated for shit we're never gonna every kid

in my hometown that went to my elementary school.

I'm gonna give you a full ride to college.

The people who

are responsible for getting this book made are going to freak when they hear this.

Yeah.

Because we're very close to canceling.

What if we just said it, though?

Think about it.

It would clear up our schedule significantly.

It would be the Van Talk of books.

Yeah, and we have all the power.

Yeah.

Because we just be like, no, we're not going to write it.

And they haven't given us the money yet.

Right.

15.

Better number.

15 years.

Good point.

Hey.

Yeah.

20 years.

That hits better.

Oh, man.

Zach?

You guys should.

Yes or no?

On the book?

Yeah.

I think you should go book.

Maybe you should go big font, you know?

Okay.

But you hold the power right now.

If you say no, we will cancel the book.

You should do the book.

I don't think you should put a time frame.

He's been paid off.

He should rush it.

You're in the pocket of the book.

I don't even know who our public rush is, but he's been paid off.

Yeah.

We should also release a spark notes on our book.

Oh, definitely.

Yeah.

It's called a podcast.

Did we just write a book right now?

Oh, should we go for lowest book sales ever?

Okay, we sell one book.

Well, there's going to be

more listens to the audiobook.

Yeah.

We sell one book.

Derier O'Connell's doing the audiobook.

But it's like part of the route

where somebody pays $3 million for the one copy of our.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We could do that.

Yes.

We do know some wealthy guys might want it.

All right.

What's going on in Sports World?

Anything that we need to talk about?

We have a seventh.

Huge, huge sports day today.

Yeah.

Bronnie versus Flag.

Did it already happen?

It's tonight.

Well, it's tomorrow.

It's yesterday as the show comes out.

Thursday night, Summer League.

Okay.

Bronnie versus Scooper Flag.

Huge matchup.

Who's the face of the league?

Who should have been the face of the league should have been?

Who is the face of Summer League?

Okay.

All right.

So it starts in an hour as we're taping this.

I think Cooper Flag went off.

I think he did, too.

Yeah.

I think he's better than we thought he was.

I think he's, yeah, significantly better than we thought he was.

Now that he got away from Duke.

Yeah.

What else?

Oh, Brent Rooker is in the home run derby, so we have seven out of eight now.

That's huge.

I mean announce them

Is he gonna do this to us?

Is he gonna do it to us?

Yeah, okay, who else are we looking at who who besides the guys have been announced one who else is up there in terms of home runs hit this year?

Why isn't Aaron judging it?

He should do it judge do it.

Did you guys see Juan Soto

complain like he was mad that he didn't make the all-star game because it cost him money?

And I think it cost him $100,000.

He makes like a quadrillion dollars.

Yeah, that's okay.

He'll be fine.

He just, he's all about that money.

$100,000.

Yeah, wait, what was it?

What do you think?

I think it's a lot of money on the table if I make it.

$100,000 bonus would be 0.00131 of his current salary.

Okay.

So he will probably make that amount of money just in the times like bitching about not being on the all-star.

Correct.

In his investments.

Correct.

Okay.

Correct.

All right, wait.

So seven out of eight, when are they going to announce the eighth?

The pop on Yelich would be,

the numbers would be pretty big on MLB for the, like, just the retweet sometimes.

Who else is out there?

PCA?

PCA could do it.

He had two today.

Judge.

He's got 25.

What?

Who was that?

What was that, Max?

You whistled.

You said he's on my dingers-only team.

I think.

That's huge.

I think Kyle Schwarber.

Well, you can't talk about dingers-only until you pitch.

That's fair.

Last word.

Last word I'll ever say until I pitch.

Yeah.

Schwarber.

Schwarber would be great.

Schwarber's already said that he doesn't want to do it.

Shut up, Max.

You already said that you were done talking about it.

That's

more words.

Those are more words you just used.

This is home run.

You just add words.

A home run derby and dingers only are two different things.

It's dingers.

It's not only dingers.

The home run derby is quite literally only dingers.

It's literally dingers count.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it's not our fantasy baseball.

No more words.

Okay.

Shut up, Max.

No more words.

The Thunders signed all their players.

Yep, they did.

Well, Caruso.

Yeah, they need to get Caruso.

Is he next?

He must be.

So, yeah, they gave out a con.

What was it, $270 million, five years?

Is that what the term is?

For Jalen Williams?

Yeah.

I think it was $287.

And then Check got paid, too.

Was that, when did Check get paid?

Yesterday.

Okay, so the Thunder in total have given...

$822 million

in contracts to those three guys.

It's pretty good.

Money's not real.

Money is not real.

And there's a lot of people who are trying to say that this will be the end of the Thunder because you can't pay all three guys.

But I think what their plan is, and it might work, is that they have so many draft picks, they'll just keep drafting and not paying those guys and then pay their three guys.

Yeah.

And hope the role players, like, hey, you're going to play well if you get drafted, get paid very little money, but you get to play with three really good players.

So what do all these contracts mean for the apron?

I don't know.

They might be in prison.

Prison?

Prison.

I got to get a look under that apron.

Yeah, you got to get under that apron.

Do we have any other sports news?

Najee Harris.

Najee Harris

does have both eyes.

Yes.

He had a, quote, superficial eye injury.

Yes.

But is expected to be back for training camp.

With a superficial part of the eye, wouldn't that be the eyelid injury?

Maybe his eye.

Yeah, that would be.

Because, like, your eye...

is not superficial.

Yeah.

Right?

Or I guess maybe he just scraped the skin of his eye?

It doesn't sound good.

He's just got a little boo-boo.

His eyes were closed and a firework blasted him in the face.

Huh.

Why would you close your eyes during fireworks, though?

Because one's coming at your face.

Yeah, true.

We also had, I think people are fat-shaming Patrick Mahomes again.

Yeah, they are.

Well, and his trainer is threatening to beat anyone up.

Oh, that's fat.

That fat shape.

That's awesome.

He keeps saying, like, drop your location.

He's like five guys.

I like this move by his trainer.

That's a good guy if you're Patrick Mahomes.

Yes.

Okay, he's got a little beer belly, dad bod, whatever.

Still a good quarterback.

In fact, I would prefer if my quarterback didn't have like an eight-pack.

Yeah.

It's way too much time working on your core.

Yeah.

He so yeah, it was a Kansas City radio host rips disgrace Patrick Mahomes for offseason dad bod.

What does it matter?

Patrick Mahomes.

Yeah.

He wins.

I mean it would matter maybe like later on in his career if he if he's like out of shape and gets injured, but

if he he went to he's gone to three straight Super Bowl.

He went to the Super Bowl.

He did get beaten up in the Super Bowl.

He He did get beaten up in the Super Bowl.

But I don't think

that this has to be like Kansas City sports radio, like, you got to have something.

But like, realize that you have it pretty good, and there'll be a day that will come 10 years, 15 years from now, where you'll be like, yeah, maybe I shouldn't have nitpicked the guy who brought all this success to our city.

Yeah, I'm going to guess that it's not necessarily coming from.

inside the house.

I think most of the accusations of fat are coming from other teams.

And that could actually be great for a Kansas City Chiefs fan because the last five, six years, you've just had to invent reasons why people hate the Kansas City Chiefs and why people doubt you.

Now, you actually have people making fun of your quarterback.

Now, you've got an actual person to be mad at.

Yeah, other than Will Compton.

Yeah, Will Compton.

Yeah.

Okay.

Anything else?

Sports-wise?

No one?

It's July, baby.

I just can't wait for Summer League.

You know me.

Yeah.

Our interviews are great today.

And

we've been kind of out of pocket.

I mean, I haven't watched anything all week because we've been working.

Yep.

You guys seen any...

I don't know if I've seen any sports.

I saw some baseball highlights.

Little Summer League, a little WNBA.

I did watch them at Brewer's Game when The Miz was pitching.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Filthy Mizness.

You had to tune in for that.

Oh, also, happy birthday to Mudang.

One years old.

I forgot about Mudang.

Yeah.

She got a little bit big.

That's the problem with pygmies.

She's like tortured.

What did you say?

Isn't she like a tortured animal?

Why?

She's in a.

What are you talking about?

They like take advantage of her.

How so?

Wasn't that a thing?

What is it?

Jeffrey Perlman or whatever.

What was the guy's name?

The boy band guy?

Oh, Lou Perlin.

Lou Perlman.

Yeah, pretty much.

They like wake him up and like force him to

be awake when it's not supposed to be and

take advantage of her.

Where'd you get these facts?

It sounds like what we do to Hank.

It sounds like they wake him up and they make him like perform when he's not ready to be awake.

They make Mudang awake.

Mudang doesn't get to play golf anymore.

And when he does, they just make fun of him for it.

Where'd you read this, Hank?

I remember when it was like when she was hot last year.

She was under one, and you're calling her hot.

So just like hot, like in the public, in the public space when you were posting her every day.

Yeah.

You were the pervert.

No, you're the pervert.

You're posting videos of a one-year-old every day.

It's cute

what is hippo years to human i don't know i i feel like they might be an animal that lives a long time because they just chill underwater and don't lose

to human years i mean sea cow uh no that's manatee i forget what hippopotamus is do hippos generally live 35 to 50 years which is equivalent equivalent to around 36 human years so a 10 year old hippo would be roughly equivalent to a 27 year old human what

okay oh yeah that makes sense so mu dang is like three almost.

Yeah.

So Hank, you just call the three-year-old hop.

Just so you know.

Howitzer.

Okay.

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Mount Rushmore

of C words.

Things that begin with the letter C.

Oh, I thought I prepared for a different Mount Rushmore of C words.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that could be on there.

Dunham, C.

What is the score?

89.

I don't even know what the score is.

Just tell me the score.

10, 8, 6.

What was the phrase that we came up with that we're trying to

stay strong?

We're going to stay strong.

Stay strong, don't

stay strong, don't

break.

All right, doesn't feel like we've

maybe shortened that a little bit.

All right, I don't know if our team is losing.

We're still first.

We're shaky.

We're shaky.

Who's goes first?

I think we're up first, right?

We're last.

Hank, you have the chance to do the funniest thing ever right now.

Yeah.

Number one,

we doing Christ?

Jerry, you're ball, your ball, Captain.

Oh, man.

Hank did put church down on the list.

But I thought Christ would be a good one, but we're not going to go to Christ.

We're going to go 1-1,

chicks.

Ooh, nice.

Chicks.

Chicks.

God help me, I just love women.

Okay.

What do you think about that, Hank?

I love it.

Yeah?

Feeling good about that?

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean, who amongst us?

Who amongst us, maybe Zach, doesn't like chicks.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, baby chickens?

Is that the one?

Were we talking baby chickens or we're talking women?

Women.

Okay, that's cool, yeah.

Yeah.

It's good that you clarified that.

Just in case.

Yeah.

Fair point.

I think we go with R111, right?

I think so, too.

Okay.

All right.

We're going to go one, our first pick, we're going to go...

College football.

Yep, that was R1-1.

Do you love college football?

I love college football.

Do you watch a lot of it?

I watch a lot of college football.

Okay.

All right.

Why?

Well, there was some debate last fall.

What?

You had a who was it?

Somebody accused you of not watching that much college football.

Who?

I forget who it was.

What?

Yeah.

I don't think anyone accused me.

I remember that.

Who was it?

You guys are just making this up now, Hank, because you definitely don't.

I know your face better than anything.

What?

I remember 50s, right?

What we're doing to make it stuff up?

Draft.

Okay, you guys are up.

Yep.

How you feel, max i might go rogue

you guys need to go rogue because you're too good at this i'm thumbsing up your message that you sent they're too good at this go rogue i think we there's college football is great pick i don't know why we didn't think about this we could we're gonna go college basketball okay yeah college basketball is also a great pick i also had that on the list and then the next is coffee yep i knew i knew it was gonna get taken that's okay

college soccer yeah there goes college soccer well i also I was thinking about it, and if we had ended up with coffee and I had done a coffee meme like I always do every morning, Hank would have then accused me of possibly messing with the draft like you did on Wednesday.

I tweeted the picture of Jesus every morning.

Their morning prayers.

God is good.

Okay, this is where we got to get to, this is where we got to stay strong.

Stay strong, don't break.

Stay strong, don't break.

All right, what do you think?

I'm following your lead.

You tell me what you think is going to be great here.

Zach, just go row.

Do we pivot?

Pick what?

I don't know what you're talking about.

No, I don't.

That's fine.

Yeah, we'll back it down.

I was going to say three here is good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We both like that.

Okay?

Yeah.

All right.

I like it.

We're going to go chocolate.

Okay.

Chocolate.

Pick.

Love chocolate.

Very good pick.

Thank you.

I like her too.

Yeah, we'll take cash.

Had it on the list.

Cash money.

Yeah.

Cash is king.

Good pick.

Hank, what do we do here for three?

I think you let it rip.

Let it rip.

Cocaine.

Okay, I had it on my list.

Cocaine.

Hank didn't want me to take it.

I had it on my list, too.

And it's not good for you, and you shouldn't do it, but it's pretty good.

Yeah.

I had it on my list, too.

Hey.

I did not have it on my list.

Hank did not.

It's

team game.

Nine?

Yeah.

I think you're right.

I want you to start playing.

I want Zach to start playing.

Oh, we're playing, boys.

But I want you to play.

We're in here.

All right.

Go.

We're next.

Okay.

We would like to take

Christmas.

There you go.

Good pick.

Good pick.

Good pick.

I thought you were going to change at the last second there.

I thought I was on it.

We had that.

Yeah, I did.

You did change.

Tell me after what you thought.

Okay.

I thought you were going to pick.

I can do that.

Okay.

All right.

We can't get on track right here.

You're right.

We're on track.

We're good.

Stay strong.

Don't break.

We're going to go with

cake.

Oh,

good pick.

pick.

And

this is tough.

There's so many good C words.

I know.

I'm trying to think of.

This is one we should have gone.

We've gone broad or this is one we should have probably gone six.

Everyone in the

world, I'm so mad at the C's that we left off.

Yeah, because we are going to do that.

I think.

At some point this summer, we're going to do a draft where we'll do a Mount Rushmore where all six of us have individual picks, but all the points count for the team.

Gotcha.

Okay, I'm

do it.

Rip it.

I'm going to go cheese steak.

Yeah.

Great pick.

All right.

Great pick.

Best food out there.

Second time cheesesteak has been taken in this room.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That's right.

A dominant.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm not staying strong anymore.

You are.

You are.

You're strong.

I'm strong.

You take turkey clothes.

We'll get back to the turkey.

I'm looking at 13.

Yeah, so I was thinking.

Yeah, but

13

workshop we got 13, 4, 5.

I got a lot of heat for that.

5 is good.

13, like 13 rips, but like, does that pick up?

Yeah, it's a great sandwich.

Right, right, right, right.

No, guys, I think this was the start of meatball, I think, for me.

So 13, 4, and 5 are like,

I would think every.

We're not saying strong.

We're breaking.

We're breaking.

Zach is turning Big Cat into Zach.

I am.

I can't.

It's D and D all over here.

He's so strong over here.

I'm not strong right now.

Five.

I'm not strong right now.

Time crunch, Zach.

Give us.

You ripped the fourth.

Hank could be golfing right now.

Zach, Zach, you take this pick.

Yeah, Time Crunch.

I just took the last one.

He's going to take the fourth right here.

Let's go.

Go eight.

Go eight.

You can't go eight.

I almost want to just not do a pick because I'm just, I'm so, I'm so frozen and I don't know.

You just go.

You go.

Okay, fourth.

You go.

You go.

All right, yeah, fine.

Zach's getting the ball.

Fourth, we'd like to take cheeseburgers.

All right, I like it.

Feel good.

Yes.

See, that was so hard because I was paralyzed and I wanted to take cheeseburgers, but then I wanted to take another thing.

So you just

later.

We'll circle back.

Yeah.

Great job.

You too.

Same to you.

I think we stayed strong.

Either or, those are two great picks.

I think we have points in them.

I like that.

I've got to stay true to myself.

All right.

Seven on our list.

Candy.

Good pick.

Taking candy.

Yep.

So much.

So much variety.

Great fourth-round pick.

You got chocolate.

You got sour.

You got Twizzlers.

You got everything.

Candy.

So, what I was going to decide.

Did we both get chocolate here?

All of them are strong.

They're all strong.

You guys,

I think we're going to come in third.

I think I have a good view of this.

I think I went to one Mount Rushmore.

What is it?

You guys are going to be one.

You guys are going to be two.

We're going to be three.

Steve Kornacki.

I think it's going to be one, two, three.

We should get him dressed up like Steve Kornacki.

I have a a good feeling of Mount Rushmores, and that's how I'm going to be.

No, you are the king of Mount Rushmores.

You could actually create a Mount Rushmore of C's out of honorable mentions that could win potential.

Oh, yeah.

There's so many good ones that would last.

So, Wait, what were you deciding between?

What did you almost go rogue with?

10.

You can say it.

I was thinking maybe going Call of Duty.

Yeah.

It's a good pick.

But it's a great one.

But I think Christmas probably plays better than Call of Duty.

Christmas, everybody.

Well, you guys.

A lot of people like Call of Duty.

Not everybody.

Not everyone.

Definitely not everybody.

I was going to go coming.

Yeah.

We had that on the list.

You always give us shit for sexual, but we were.

I mean, you guys went chicks first.

Well, we were going to go chicks, cash, cocaine, coming.

We had all those.

And then we're just basically marketing to an audience of Dan Bilzerian.

We're going to go for that vote.

We had chilies.

Chilies.

Croikey.

Chilies.

I would have picked them croikey.

Chilies.

Hank put the word croikey on the list.

I had that word.

Croikey.

Castles.

Castles.

Castles.

Corn.

Cheese.

Chicago.

Cigarettes.

I was debating between going cheese and broad or cheese steaks, but then I thought I was like, I get more excited to have a cheese steak than I do to have like just cheese, just a slice of cheese.

Comedy.

Yeah, we had comedy on there.

We almost picked it

with our fourth round.

Couch.

Couch is nothing better than a couch.

We had cunnelingus.

Yep.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yep.

Corn.

You.

You know, we've done it too much this week.

Chips and dip.

Oh, chips and dip is good.

Chips.

Just chips.

Chips.

Yeah, we were thinking about it because, like, chips, we don't know.

You get bad chips, too, but chips and dip.

And then Cool Ranch Doritos if you wanted to get specific or the goat.

I thought about just doing college in general, but like I did too.

But you can't do rocket.

We put ourselves in a spot of like,

you can't do college football and college.

Correct.

I can't do college basketball and college.

Yeah.

Concerts.

Concerts are great.

Computers.

Yeah.

Zach had cell phones.

Computer

stuck though because that just it just worked.

Carne Asada worked.

Zach had an interesting one.

Oh,

one that would have been great is chilling with the boys.

Yeah, just chilling with the boys.

I didn't say this to memes, but I thought it personally, crank and hog.

Oh, that would have been good.

Zach had one that I still don't really understand, but

I'd like to say it, and then you can just clarify, I guess.

Construction workers.

We have so much infrastructure to everything that we do.

This building, all of our homes,

all of the establishments we go to.

I mean,

the groundwork of civilization, all the construction workers deserve so much credit.

Yeah.

Shout out.

I think

I also think construction equipment would have been cool, too.

Yeah.

Also, heavy duty stuff.

Shout out Chevy.

Chevy.

Chevy.

Yes.

Big time.

That would have been a great pick.

Yeah.

Carbs.

Carbs are great.

We almost took carbs early, which I think would have been a mistake.

Hank puts.

Carbs kind of have like a bad, I love carbs, but a lot of people are like, oh, carbs.

Let me your carbs.

Fuck that.

You got to eat it.

Those people are behind themselves.

Hank put corner kicks on the list.

Oh, hey.

Just brainstorming.

Yeah.

What about

share?

Cher.

Calling a timeout.

Credence Clearwater Revival.

CCR.

Banger.

Dion.

Celine Dion.

I had Carmen Electra.

We had Charles Barkley.

Zach put in Cristiano Ronaldo.

Yep.

Oh, no.

Yep.

Nessie.

Chilean Seabass.

Also, Zach put in Curry, Steph.

You don't like Chilean Seabass?

I I don't know.

Your pictures make me giggle.

Chris Farley, Chris Rock.

He had Chris Tucker.

I like Chris Farley.

Chris Farley's good pick.

Chris Stapleton.

Yeah.

No one took cookies.

Cookies or candy.

Yeah, I think.

Yeah, that was, we had that debate.

More variety and candy.

Yeah, yeah.

We had cops, the TV show.

Yeah.

Cards.

But then you put cop.

Then you put cops on a graphic and some what have you got a problem with cops?

No, but some people

sounds like you you don't have a problem with cops.

I do not have a problem with cops.

I back.

Some people do.

If liking the cops is patterning them.

Some people do.

Sounds like you've got a problem.

Christ and cops.

That's what we're about over here.

Yep.

You just said the same thing about carbs.

What?

The argument you are making is the same argument you just made about carbs.

Some people will look at carbs on a graphic and be like, but everyone likes carbs.

But you like carbs.

That is incorrect.

Who doesn't like carbs?

Kind of got me cornered on that one.

That was the quickest I've ever thought on my feet.

Literally ever.

I'm proud of you.

Charger submitted me fast.

I was about to spiral and then for some reason I figured.

It's max evolving.

Cars.

Cars,

cars in general.

Cars.

Cars and movie.

Cars and movies.

Well, you put it on the graphic.

It's both.

Yeah, that's true.

Well, no.

Cars and movies cars, I think, with an exclamation point.

But you could also be very excited about cars.

Yeah, true, true.

True.

I believe.

I'm not 100% sure.

Let me see.

I don't know.

Maybe I made that up in my head.

What salts?

I like to say croissants.

We said cheese, right?

Yep, we did.

Yeah.

Cars, the movie is not exclamation point.

I thought it was for some reason.

A lot of good things out there.

I'm going to see.

Creeping somebody out when you're staring at them and they notice you stare at them.

That's a good one.

That would have been a good one.

Yeah, that would be a good one here for sure.

That's a good one.

Connor.

Great name.

Charizard.

Oh, yeah.

Charizard.

Charmander?

Charmeleon?

You can take Charmander when Charizard's on.

I honestly don't know the difference.

You don't get Charizard without Charmander.

Charming is the first.

So you hate kids.

So you hate kids.

You can't have Charizard without a Charmander.

But Charizard is the most evolutionized form.

Yeah, but Charmeleon.

Charmander gets you.

Charmeleon is actually the...

Yeah, but Charizard is the most valuable of all Pokemon.

You got to respect the Journey, though.

You do have to respect the Journey.

You have to do it.

That's a fair point.

Crabs.

Crabs is good.

Eating ones.

But then you, but I know.

I thought about that, but then it's like crabs on a graphic.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

Crab legs, maybe.

That would have been.

Crab cakes.

Crab feast.

Crab cakes are delicious.

Crab cakes.

Crab crawfish.

Yep.

Crawfish are good.

Yeah, so good.

Chicken.

China.

I thought about Canada.

Uh-huh.

Now.

Shout out to our Canadians.

I don't think he's.

No, yeah, but I like Canada.

Yeah, it's fine.

Could you put another country on Mount Rushmore, though?

No, probably not.

Yeah.

Czechoslovakia.

Chinese food.

Oh, that

is a big mess.

Yep.

Chinese food is a great call.

That could have easily been a pick.

Yeah.

Shit.

Fuck.

Charcuterie?

Yeah.

Charcuterie's good.

Champagne.

What were some of the other ones?

Fuck.

Championship.

Championship.

Championships.

Fuck.

I just completely forgot about that in the last, whatever.

Championships.

And the worst part about Mount Rushmore season is that we've listed 200 C words and we will still have, like, the first thing I'll see when I wake up tomorrow is someone saying something and me being like, how am I so stupid?

Like, the M-words, Monday Night Football, we forgot.

And I felt like the dumbest person in the world.

All right, here's the rest of

Zach's list real quick.

You can just jump in anytime to explain it.

Okay.

Catch.

Yep.

That plays.

Carmel Anthony.

Yep.

should have been an interesting one.

Firstball player of all time.

I agree.

He was mocking you.

No, I wasn't mocking you.

I was just saying your stat.

Yeah,

uh, cruises.

No, I disagree.

He never does.

Neither have I.

He brain dumped.

That's fine.

We're not going to judge.

Uh,

combines, chat.

Great pick.

I can't believe chat's fun.

Yeah, chat.

Uh, cinema.

Should have been sitting next to me.

Movies are great.

Crepes, spelled incorrectly.

Tough look.

Like grapes with a C?

Yeah, exactly.

Countdowns.

What's countdowns?

Countdowns are good.

Just like 10, 9, 8, 7.

Builds a suspense.

It does, yeah.

Can't fucking discount it, dude.

That's right.

Nierzy that.

That's going to be the number one thing that people are pissed off about tomorrow.

Fucking left countdowns off.

Oh, all right.

Coolers.

Cows.

Cool, which is good.

I was thinking cold beer, but that's kind of,

would that have counted?

Nah.

I feel like that's a little too...

That's an agitator.

You can't use it.

Yeah, right.

Country music.

Cola.

Cola.

Cola.

Yeah.

All right.

Good job, guys.

Let's get to our interview.

We got a great interview with Rob Mack, aka Rob McAlini from Always Sunny, and then our good friend Marty Fish, who hopefully is going to win this tournament.

He's defending champ of the ACC.

And then we'll finish up with Firefest.

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And now, here's Rob Mack.

Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest.

It is Rob Mack, which is that official?

Should we start?

Rob from Always Sonny, Rob Mack officially changed his name.

Is there a viral ad behind this?

What's going on?

No, there's no viral ad.

I mean,

there is a very brief under 60-second explanation

online that's easy to see.

But I can keep it quick for you guys.

It's just a lifetime of

mispronunciations, misspellings, misunderstandings, which is not that big of a deal.

Right.

And

for years, I was asked, especially when I first started, would I consider shortening my name or changing my name?

A lot of people, in fact, a lot of people you're not even aware of have changed their name when they get into my business.

And I was always very proud of my name and said, no, you know, like, that's my family name, and I've had it for generations, and I don't want to change it.

And this year, I did a full like ancestry family tree and found out that my name has changed like seven times.

Oh, okay.

Including when they got here

at immigration at Ellis Island and they just changed the name completely.

And they were like, no, this is what the name is.

And then there was other sects of my massive Irish Catholic family that started spelling it in all sorts of different ways.

So I decided, you know what?

Fuck it.

I'm just going to do it right now.

Yeah, now you got a whole new way.

And now it's so simple.

R-O-B-M-A-C-T-N.

Yeah, that's easy.

Do you feel different?

I got to be honest with you, I do.

Yeah.

I didn't think that I would.

And it's something lighter.

It's, I mean look again It's really not and I addressed this in this stupid little video I made it.

There's so much going on in the world and this is such a stupid little thing but but to even like spend your time thinking about but you know when you're walking around and you walk into a hotel for example and you and you say hi and they say name sir and you say McElhenney and they look up with confusion and they should because it's ridiculously long and so many syllables.

And then you try to explain why it's not MAC, why is it MC?

And then is there a space?

I've been stopped at airports for 40 years where you know, there's a space where there shouldn't have been a space, there's a missing vowel.

Right.

And I just decided R-O-B-M-A-C.

So if your name's long like that, I have a long last name as well, but it just becomes something where you say Mac Lenny and you immediately start spelling it for them.

Exactly.

Right off the bat, right?

And even there, you just mispronounced it.

And it's not your fault.

Yeah.

Because he was actually doing the third generation.

Thank you.

Fair enough.

Yes.

Sorry for dead naming.

Yes.

Thank you.

Yes.

Believe me, I'm going to spend a lot of time calling people out saying that

you have to.

Oh, almost immediately.

Wait, but so when you decided to do this, were you, was it always going to be Mac or were you like, maybe I'll upgrade like Rob Powers or something.

I wanted to make it as

just like your five-year-old self be like, what do I want to be?

I made this mistake in high school.

My sophomore year, we had this wonderful teacher, and she said, she made the mistake of saying to 16-year-old boys, if you have a nickname that you go by, you tell me that, and I'll call you that for the rest of the year.

And I was being, you know, a piece of shit, and I said, my my nickname is Blade.

And she heard for some reason, Blaze.

And I said, and but then I freaked out and she said, Blaze, and I said, yes.

So then she called me Blaze for half the year,

except she spelled it B-L-A-I-S-E, not B-L-A-Z.

So much worse.

That sounds like a little girl in Nashville.

Yeah, it seems like Bloise.

Yeah, you don't want that.

And then she noticed that all of my friends were calling me Rob, so she caught wind of that.

And so I figured I'd just go keep it simple, Rob, Mac, ROBM, sing were you surprised that like some people were mad about it I I saw the video and I was just like oh cool he's Rob Mack now like who cares people hate change yeah people hate change I can see the comments and some people like what are you doing it's like what do you care yeah

I figured there would be some

some blowback and again it people everybody's got an opinion about something you know and and I and at the end of the day I assume that most people would say the same thing which is it's your name who cares yeah you should change it like every year just to see like can we get the dumbest controversy going going?

How can we upset as many people as possible?

How can I really make it a giant narcissistic?

Yeah.

I mean, so it really is just to simplify things and

to be able to walk into a room and say, RB, MAC.

I appreciate it because we scheduled this interview like probably two months ago.

And I think at the moment that we scheduled it, I was like, all right, I got to figure out how to say his name.

And then this happened a week ago.

I was like, fuck.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Yeah.

Rob Mack.

Yeah, it was always misspelled.

And I was always correcting people, but that, you know, only in official capacities, because sometimes you can't get on a plane or you can't check in somewhere.

And then people would apologize, and I would always say, it's not your fault.

It is a ridiculously long name and hidden vowels and whatnot.

And so it was always like a 30-second longer exchange than...

anything had to be.

And you guys also have nicknames as well.

Yeah, right.

So

it's a stage name.

Your life is so much more efficient now.

Did you think about going to MACK as opposed to MAC?

Totally fair question.

Yeah.

I really appreciate it.

I wanted to keep it as simple as possible.

Yeah.

I just wanted just because then the silent K, especially,

would maybe potentially add a little bit more confusion.

That's fair.

Okay, well, yeah, it's good to have you here.

How's the golf game looking?

I mean, I'm so sorry because

I'm sure you guys have just been talking about this all day, but how can we be talking about my name or golf?

How can we be talking about anything when the video of that man on the golf course?

Yeah.

I mean, the best.

It's so sad as the best.

The bang, bang, bang.

And I don't know what it is about my, what this says about me,

but my feed on all of my social, all of my socials,

almost as if I turned my phone on

and it got pushed to me.

Yeah.

You know, you guys got pushed to me.

Like that video got pushed to me on every single channel I have.

And it is just glorious content.

It's not only the fact that it's a...

ex-NHL enforcer just kicking the shit out of a guy who is being like way too aggressive, but there's just something about like guys on a golf course in polos fighting that just it does it for me.

Maybe it's like a new UFC we could get.

Like they do the slap.

Maybe it's just golfers fighting.

It's uh they shouldn't be fighting.

You know, it's like a very prestigious game and banners and everything, and then they're just throwing each other into lakes.

You see it from time, you see it from time to time, but usually there's enough distance between people who are like upset with each other that by the time they close the distance,

they're either cooler heads have prevailed, but most likely one guy saw the other guy and was like, nah, not today.

In this case, that didn't happen.

A drunkstein did saw this six foot.

I actually don't know how big the hockey player is.

He's a big guy.

He's a six.

I could tell based on the accents.

So as soon as I open it and I hear the guy's accent, and I'm like, oh, he's Canadian.

And he sounds like

every hockey player I know.

And that's the way, not just their accent, but the way he's not necessarily de-escalating, but he's also not escalating it.

He's saying, hey, man, like, just keep moving, keep moving.

And then eventually the guy calls him, starts running towards him.

And all he does is throw him in.

He says, I'm going to throw you in the lake.

Yeah.

He throws him in a lake.

Yeah, you're right.

It wasn't a de-escalation.

It was just a calm, like, hey, I'm going to beat the fuck out of you.

Yes.

Keep going.

Yeah, I don't remember who it was in the video who says, you're not scaring anybody.

I think it was either the guy's friend who was filming or it was actually the hockey player.

But either way, the calmness with which that was delivered,

you're not scaring anyone.

It's also never a good sign when the guy who's delivering the beating keeps saying like, enough.

Yes.

He's like, enough.

You've had enough.

There's a moment at which the buddy comes in to maybe step in, and you see that the hockey player grabs him and he could have given him a bang.

And he chooses not to in a split second and just kind of pushes him away.

And, you know,

that kind of temperance.

That's a noble piece.

He also fought him like a hockey player.

He grabbed him by the shirt and like held him.

I feel like the punches were targeted.

He's like hitting him on the side of the head just like he used to do back in the league and calling his own shots of a throwing him in the river and then bang

bang bang is amazing and you guys know enough hockey players and to me hockey players are my some of my favorite athletes um especially to hang out with and to play golf yes and i don't know a lot of ufc fighters that play golf but i i have a lot of who are friends and they are the the funnest people to hang out with because they're the most chill yeah they're so fun canadian hockey players and again this is such a broad statement but you know they tend to be either from Canada or from the Midwest and from the North and they're just sweet people yeah kind people until they're not gonna give you the business and they gotta bang you yes yeah and they gotta bang I think what it is about golf videos because for me it's the same way with airport fight videos yeah I like watching those too and the the common space they share is you're probably not going to see a gun pulled out yeah right it's like if you're on a golf course the guy's probably unarmed you don't have to worry about watching a video and it's just it turns into like a snuff film that gets tossed in your algorithm in the airport you're through security already so it's like all right just boys will be boys square up i'm trying to think the other the only other thing that that goes up for it for for like golf fight videos is when you get like the dudes on bikes like the lance armstrongs and like the tight the tight jerseys when they fight that's fun start kicking because you just look ridiculous if you fight in that like i've always wondered when you see uh like nascar drivers go at yeah and because they're wearing helmets yeah they're still willing to throw down and hit a guy in his helmet But again,

I know that we, I know, I can speak for myself.

I like to believe I'm someone, but my algorithm tells me exactly who I am.

So when I go to open up, you know, whatever it is, Instagram or something, and I look and I go to search and it says like, this is what you want.

I'm like, no, no, it's not.

Yes, it is.

No, it's listen.

We love it.

I don't know why.

I like to watch people fight.

I just do.

I don't know what it's an instinctual thing.

When I pull up my Instagram algorithm, it's usually just like big tits and like cheeseburgers.

I'm like, they got me.

They figured me out.

They got it.

Boobs and puppies right now.

Yeah.

Those are my two.

Yeah, they got it.

Pretty good.

But seriously, how is the golf game going?

It's going okay.

I have a very low bar.

Last year was my first, I think it was the first tournament I've ever played in or I've never played in any of these like official pro-ams.

And so last year was my first time.

There were 90 participants.

I came in 81st.

Well, as long as you beat Charles Barkley then.

I didn't.

Oh.

I didn't.

I didn't.

Oh, that's your caddy over there saying this year.

Yeah, your caddy saying this year.

I brought an actual caddy.

Yeah.

Last year, I brought

one of my employees, Brian, who's a great...

Sorry, Brian, he's just sighed.

He's my chief of staff, but he's not a caddy.

Now I have an official caddy.

A real caddy.

Who I work with in Los Angeles.

And this is the year I beat Barkley, for Christ's sake.

Yeah.

Does that put a little more pressure on you, though, bringing a real caddy?

It's like the guy in

like men's league softball wearing batting gloves.

gloves.

Like you have to, if you don't perform, you have a real caddy with you.

I think part of my problem last year was that I didn't feel the pressure.

It was just fun.

Like, and I just got hammered and was like, ah, who cares?

And then you start to care when you're negative 16, 17.

And I'm watching that.

And, you know, it's the opposite.

Usually you want to be,

you want to be below a bar.

This is the stable for point system.

So I think I finished with negative 36 points.

Yeah.

That's not.

That's beatable.

So I have that going for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Have you told somebody that you shot minus 36 and then not clarified afterwards?

Yeah, I told my wife hoping that she would take the bait and she didn't give a fuck either way.

Is she changing her name?

She just didn't care.

She never changed it.

So she was always, she always is.

She should change it to McElhenney.

Well, on her, some of her official documents, I guess it's,

I feel really bad for her.

It's Olson McElhenney.

Okay.

And she wanted that because she wanted to have the same name as her children.

So my kids now are McElhoney.

Oh.

It's up to them.

Oh.

It's up to them.

It's quite a pickle choice.

Yeah, it's a bit of a pickle.

But they're 15 and 13.

And again, they don't give a shit.

Yeah.

I heard that you're getting into business with a Mexican soccer team now.

I am in business.

Necaxa, right?

Yes.

So I don't know if he still is working around the team.

We know a guy, Sam Porter, that was.

Oh, you know Sam?

Sam very well.

Yeah.

So

he sent me like a box of Necaxa stuff like three years ago.

I like the logo.

That's my limited knowledge behind the game.

It's beautiful.

Well, we have a television series that's going to be debuting in about a month.

It's in Spanish,

but you can read, right?

I can read.

Great.

You can read.

There's subtitles.

You're writing.

We're writing a book, yeah.

Yeah, okay.

Actually, you don't have to write it.

You can read and write.

Yeah, yeah.

Great.

Ghostwriter, though.

All right, so it'll be subtitled, but

the vast majority of it is in Spanish.

I do my best.

Ryan doesn't speak any Spanish.

I speak a little bit enough.

But it is about our journey with Nakaksa and Eva Longoria.

So

this obviously spurned on from Wrexham and what you guys have done with that.

You guys are in the second league now?

You're right.

Yeah,

in championship, right?

Yeah.

It's pretty, like...

That doesn't really happen.

Have you had a moment to step back and be like, this, you know, when you buy an investment like that, and it's going to be a fun story and you make a documentary, like, this could be really cool.

You guys are just skyrocketed.

Yes, it's been wild.

I mean, it's never happened before in the history of english football no no team has ever gone back to back to back yeah um and that's uh that's what we did this past year it's crazy and so we each year we get told okay well now's the year where you slow down you consolidate you invest in other areas and each year we say no we go all in and and bet on the on the coach yeah and the team and it's worked out this far you guys are doing ownership right like i i would imagine the fans love this because it's revived this franchise.

I spent a lot of time in the very beginning talking to a few owners who I'm who I'm friends with, Jeffrey Lurie, who owns the Eagles, just to ask him, but most importantly, I spoke to all my friends who are either pro-athletes or ex-pro-athletes to ask them what kind of relationship they would want to have with the owners, if at all.

And so I did my research and

you know, it's kind of great that we don't know anything about football.

I'll call it soccer because this is a

waste of time.

We don't know anything about soccer.

We don't know anything about professional sports, to be honest with you, other than I like watching it.

So we can't, there's no reason for us to be in the locker room.

There's no reason for us to be talking about strategy.

We can just be friends with the players and the families, and then we just invest in the manager and in the executives to make sure that they're all making the right decisions, and then we're just fans.

Yeah.

So it's kind of a perfect, it's kind of a perfect situation because we're not involved in any football operations.

We're not involved in any of their deal making.

We approve the budget, but at the end of the day,

if a player isn't moving on with us, that's not my call.

So it allows us to become really good friends with players.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's awesome.

So, I mean, you should coach at some point.

Just because that I feel like every owner, like when everyone says Jerry Jones is too hands-on, it's like, no, he's not hands-on enough.

Like, I wouldn't want him.

I'd call some plays if I owned him.

I love it when he does a press conference.

I like really

love to watch Jerry Jones put on the headset.

Yeah.

But you know what?

Fuck you.

Go out and play.

Go out and play, man.

Yeah, why not?

You can do whatever you want.

That's great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we,

we, I'm very, very, very respectful of the fact that I cannot, it's amazing how many owners or executives you see think that they're the ones that are

doing it.

They ain't

doing it.

Especially new owners.

Like, that's where you guys deserve a ton of credit because you see it a lot in sports where a new owner will buy a team and they'll be like, well, I was very successful in my line of work, usually business.

I'm just going to do that here.

And then it all blows up.

Yeah.

But you can focus on the things that you know how to do really well.

So working with Ryan, who's a master marketer, we knew that we could tell the story well.

So I focused on making the documentary, which is a huge part of it.

Ryan is a massive star all over the world.

I mean, he just basically poured gasoline on the entire rocket fuel, I should say, on the entire thing.

And everybody kind of does what they can do best.

And that's the way we kind of look at all of our businesses, but

very specifically sports, where you see,

I will say though, however, look at the Commanders this year, right?

Like a new owner, new ownership comes in, and he was able, or that group was able, they were able to change the culture.

And they made a couple of key moves and then put everything in place, let everybody do their job, and look what happened.

Yeah, it was awesome.

It was great.

I'm a Commanders fan, so everything that's happened in the last two years has felt like I died and went to heaven.

Yeah.

Because Dan Snyder was the epitome of the example of the bad owner, the guy that would like meddle with everything.

Me and Big Cat, we actually, we own a Mexican football team, the Monterey Osos.

And a lacrosse team.

We're so hands-off, we didn't know that we bought it.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

We've got a lot of fun.

We had a press release.

We were like, whoops, okay.

Oops.

Yeah.

How are they doing?

Actually, they're in the Super Bowl this week.

Yeah, in the Super Bowl.

We got to talk about that.

We actually have to sign the shares.

Yeah.

Yeah, we got to.

I knew that.

And how much cash can we say?

Can Can we tell the audience how much?

I don't even know.

We have to decide that.

As much as we want.

I actually, I invested in Swansea like probably three or four years before you guys bought Wrexham, and that didn't go well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I just got blamed on like message boards because I like, I invested like $20,000.

It was nothing.

And they would just, every time they would lose, they'd be like, yeah, you got all the baddies.

Like Liverpool has LeBron and we got a fat blogger.

And it's like, whoops.

So.

Yeah.

I mean, that I've seen a lot of people go into investment groups because the ownership is really fun.

Yeah, it it is.

But at the end of the day, you know, the values of some of those clubs

in soccer, but like in the NFL, for example, you can't buy a meaningful stake in one of those clubs for less than six, seven billion dollars,

the commanders sold for.

And so it's hard.

Who has that money?

I don't know.

But that's what's so great about the English system is that you can buy a team that's in the fifth division.

If you keep investing in them and they keep performing, then you're one year away from the Premier League.

Was it more time than you thought it would be in terms of investing how much energy, how much time you're going to have to put into owning this team?

It's happened so fast

to get to this point.

The questions that we've been having are like, is it responsible how quickly we're moving?

You know, you scale a business that fast, if you don't have the right personnel in place, if you don't have the right infrastructure, you know, it's boring, but it's not sexy to talk about.

It's like drafting a left tackle.

It's like probably one of the most offensive linemen, I mean, one of the most important decisions that you can make as a club.

And yet the fans want a quarterback, they want a receiver, they want, but at the end of the day, that left tackle might be the most important, the centerpiece of your entire organization at some point.

So making those sort of like unsexy decisions has been tough because

my job as the documentarian is to tell a fun story and no one wants to watch a story about infrastructure building.

Right.

It's just fucking boring.

But the people that you hire when you get, when you get started, they might be the perfect people for that role.

But then you move up twice and now that's not the, like if you were to start from that position, you wouldn't hire that guy to be in that role.

I'll go you one further.

This is what this is where it becomes really heartbreaking.

The players oftentimes will play themselves out of a job.

So in great success in league two or league one, and this happened with a few of our players, they gave their hearts and their souls and their effort and helped us get promoted.

And for that, the club, us, the town are eternally grateful.

But what winds up happening is you go up a league and maybe they're 36, 37 years old, sometimes even 34, 35, and you need somebody who's 21 or 22.

And if you theoretically stayed down in that league, they might still have a dream.

And to ask young men to do that is, it's a part of the gig and they accept that, but it still doesn't, it doesn't make it easy.

It's not fun.

It's not fun.

And I, I found out, one of my favorite players uh was released from the team this year and i found out via twitter wow because and i was at just as shocked as he was and it was his statement and the manager hadn't hadn't told us yet he talked to the player which is what he should have done the player talked to his teammates and then put out a statement which is his right to do and i was my heart was broken he was and i did not see it coming yeah Yeah, by the way, I should note, some people do like to watch infrastructure being built.

Zach, who took your gum earlier, he watches guys do concrete pours like five-hour videos of it so if you ever want to do that if you build a new site relaxing yeah he likes it

very relaxing yes sir is what he said

to it do you get up here Zach yeah Zach yeah yeah, you're and it's actually like pouring in like concrete into molds or is it like mixing quick crete?

What do you what are you talking about here?

I got a crew in Wisconsin of Victory Addorse Services.

They they don't mix concrete, comes in on trucks, they pour it.

So they set the forms like pour driveways, parking lots, things like that okay and you're watching five hours of that yeah each video is usually like like an hour or two yeah are we building like what kind of structures are we building caissons is it like foundational work what are we a lot of driveways like

yeah a lot of uh like neighborhood driveways or sidewalks as well back patios i can see that yeah i can see how that works do you watch it so there's a there's an audience there for it yeah do you watch it dry too uh no no no no they'll come back and spray with the sealer the next day so you'll get an update on the on the pour but okay but he said no as if that was the craziest.

I'm like, you're an idiot.

Yeah, like, God knows.

I was watching.

You just, you got to watch it poor.

Yeah.

So just.

Well, we are building a stadium.

All right.

So he'll watch.

Yeah, if you want to just set up a GoPro and he'll watch that.

It's actually that would be a fun storyline.

Here's a guy.

Here's a stadium being built.

Here's a guy watching it.

Yeah.

Only because he likes to watch the concrete.

Yeah.

When you were talking to Jeffrey Laurie, did he say you have to get a Big Dom?

Oh, Big Dom is one of my favorite people

on earth.

And

I went to the, this is actually not this season, but last season, we went to the Eagles

Rams game.

And we, at the end of the game, Dom, we're in one of the boxes on the field.

Dom comes over, and he didn't even know it was my son because it was.

It was just a bunch of kids.

He brought over one of the game balls and gave it to the kids.

And my son took it home.

It's like his prize possession.

Yeah.

He did that exact same thing to Max.

Yeah.

It's Max, and he's 30.

They're just picking out the person that really needs a lift.

Listen, we were when Big Dom, when the whole thing happened with the Niners, we were like actually very upset because Max was like, oh yeah, that's Big Dom.

We're like, you've been keeping Big Dom from us?

Why didn't you tell us about Big Dom?

He's the best.

He's heart and soul of the Philadelphia Eagles.

It's really fascinating to see the dynamics.

I just went back to play in the charity event that they do, that the Eagles do.

And one of the great

perks of doing what I do for a a living is getting to do those kinds of things and be invited to Marion Golf Course to play with the Eagles.

So just to see the dynamics and how it all works, like,

because I'm just used to watching them on Sunday

and to see how

Jeffrey and then, of course, Howie Roseman, the greatest GM in all of sports, navigate their relationship with the players because it's tricky.

Like you, you want to be as close to them as you possibly can, but you could see, you know, when Howie walks into a room, like everybody kind of like sits up a little bit.

Yeah.

And

in fact,

while I was

getting food at the buffet and Jalen says, hey, do you want to sit over there?

I want to ask you a couple of things.

I said, sure.

So I go over and I'm just sitting there in a big table eating with Jalen Hurts.

And Jalen's asking me a bunch of questions about business.

And no one's sitting with us.

And I'm wondering why no one's sitting with us, but I'm figuring out it's cool.

Talking to Jalen Hurts is great.

So we talked for like 45 minutes, and then dinner was over.

And later that night, I got a text from Jake Elliott, who I'm very good friends with.

He's the kicker for the Eagles.

And

he said, I didn't see you.

I was like, where were you?

I didn't see you.

He goes, well, I saw you talking with Jalen and just figured

I should stay out of that conversation.

I'm like, what?

That's a good kicker.

Why?

That's a good kicker.

I feel like he was like, look, QB1 has decided he's sitting with you and talking.

And like, Jake finds his own space.

Yes.

He sits there.

I'm like, wow, that's real.

Yeah, that's a real, yeah, that's absolutely real.

And it wasn't out of deference or fear.

It was just out of respect for what QB1's doing.

Yeah.

Jake's got his thing that he's going to go do.

And they're all friends.

Yeah.

It's like watching a nature show, like the hierarchy in real life.

And it's so natural to a good team.

Yes.

And you know your boundaries.

And you're on the same team.

You're literally there for

a charity event, but you're there with the owner and the GM and the head coach and all the players who are, you know, they're coming back for minicamp, but you see how it all, I don't know, it's, of course, it's one big happy family, but it's still a profession and they treat it as well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Always sunny.

17 seasons.

You're on your 17th season right now.

Yep.

I mean,

that's not done in show business.

Is there a moment where you're like, how are we just going to keep going?

Are we going to break all the records?

Because it's incredible.

And it's a credit to you guys to be able to do something, keep it that funny for that long that people keep loving it.

Thank you.

I think that this season that's coming out today or tomorrow yeah is the funniest season maybe the funniest season we've ever done that's a pretty definitely the funniest of the last like decade and and charlie and i both agreed we were sitting in the editing room watching episode i don't know six or seven and we were like wow this this is probably the funniest season that we've ever done and i think it's just because we

I value people's time beyond anything else.

Like the one commodity that we can't buy more of or get more of.

People live tough lives.

I know that sunny, for some people, is just something that they can sit at home and makes them laugh when they've come home from a tough day or they're, you know, got something brutal going on in their lives and they can just watch a bunch of terrible people be terrible people and it makes them laugh.

So I take that very seriously.

And for as silly and ridiculous as the show is, the work that we put into it comes out of respect for people's time.

And I feel like if people are going to show up for us week after week, year after year, like generation after generation, then at the very least, I owe them the time to put into it to make it to be the best that I can make it.

Yeah.

Can I ask you a question about the upcoming season?

And you have to tell me and be truthful with your answer.

Ryan Reynolds, is he in it?

No.

Is that truthful?

That's truthful.

Is that truthful?

Because there was a whole like, is he going to be your boyfriend thing that you got

on a little bit?

No.

No, he's not he's not okay cut me out of deadpool he's he's yeah i'll keep him in the documentary but yeah okay that's that and you know the knock the coxa one's my fan you can edit him out of whatever you want yeah when when you guys are sitting there though editing season 17 you're like this is the best season do you do you take a moment and sit back and be like what what's so you you the first the pilot you went to like a best buy and got like a a camcorder because that's before cell phones yeah that had video like 200 bucks and you i got a yeah we got best i got a best buy card that i couldn't and i bought a camera i couldn't afford um and we actually bought two of them so we could cross shoot them much like this yep um and

what's wild is the those cameras we shot on on vas vhs so there's still our original home movie is on vhs that's amazing

and then you went out and pitched it and you actually had like a pretty good success of like people wanting it right yeah we uh we made the first one but we made the first one and it wasn't good enough.

So we did it again and then we kept going and made like three or four iterations of it until finally we were like, okay, maybe this is pretty good.

But I knew that if we were going to take it out, I was a waiter at the time.

So and working in a, and prior to that, I was a bar back in a bar.

So I wanted to entrust, I wanted them to entrust me with running this television series.

I was 26.

And so I thought we should make a second episode because that'll prove that it's not just one fluke.

Yeah.

So we made a second episode.

That turned out pretty great from our perspective.

We then took it out to the town and almost everybody made us an offer because we could keep it cheap.

And

it was something different.

That's, I mean, that in itself is kind of unheard of, that like everyone made you an offer.

And then your decision to go with FX, I love that story because you knew, you had the foresight to be like, They're going to give us the space creatively to go to places that maybe not everyone else does.

Whereas a lot of people would just in your position 26 waiting giving me the most money yeah we there was a

there was an inflection point where we had offers and when we got the offers and this is also a benefit of having multiple offers we went back with we have one demand

and that demand was that that I would be the showrunner that Glenn and Charlie would be executive producers we would direct the episodes, write the episodes,

because we didn't want to bring in, it happens all the time where they say, oh, okay, these kids made something, now let's bring in an adult or a professional.

And everybody said, oh, sorry, pass, except FX, John Landgraff, who runs that place and still does, said,

okay.

But do you guys having that ability to be like, hey, this is what we have to do?

I think that's just very rare.

I think a lot of people, especially Hungry, trying to get into the business there, they'll just take whatever offers given to them and then find out the hard way that things change when you start getting up to the big leagues.

Yeah, you know, you just, we just had a belief in ourselves that we could execute and that we, you know, to be honest with you,

we didn't want to bring in Danny in six days to.

No, no.

Our knee-jerk reaction was

not that we had anything against Danny.

Danny's an icon and hilarious and it wasn't, but he was a movie star.

And we thought, well, if we bring in a movie star, they could screw up the dynamic and we feel like we've got a pretty good thing going.

So then

Landgraff said, okay, well, you have a choice.

You can either bring in a star or you cannot do the show.

And we were like, let's do option A.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then it just so happened, it's like we hit the lottery again because Danny was incredible and like slipped right into what we were trying to do.

He is, when people are like, what's Danny really like?

I say, okay, picture Danny DeVito in your head.

That's what he's like.

That's it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you know how some people, they ain't who they putting out in the world.

He is.

Wait, so was how quickly were you like, this works with Danny?

Knowing that you were, it was a little bit forced on you, but was there a moment like even the first time or the second episode where you're like, oh, this is going to be awesome?

It actually happened when

he, as part of his contract, he said, okay, I'll do it, but you only get me for

two weeks to shoot an entire season of the show.

You know, we shoot really fast, but only having two weeks is not a lot, which means we had to front load all of his stuff in the beginning.

So, and and he was taking a risk on us, and we said, okay, fine, great.

So, we got about halfway through the first week, about Wednesday, and he could see that we were like really jamming, but he was having so much fun.

And he pulled me aside, and he goes, I'll give you as much time as you need.

Oh, that's awesome.

So, we then kept him for another, we want to still be respectful.

I think we only took another week or something like that, or two weeks.

And

there was that moment, and then and then subsequent to that, there was a time in which, you know, know, maybe

episode three or four, uh, he walks in, and there was a bunch of space that we didn't realize was there.

And I said, Okay, when you come in, you'll just have some space before you get to the next line, so just say whatever you want.

And he said, Well, what should I say?

And I said, You're Danny DeVito, man.

I want you to say whatever you want to say.

And he said, Here, come here for a second.

I said, What?

He pulls me aside, and he's like,

I'm here because I'm old and you're young, and you know what's funny and what I think is funny is what my generation thought was funny.

But I want to speak to your generation.

So you tell me what to say and I'm going to say it to the best of my ability.

And so I did.

I wrote something.

He said it.

He walked in and that was that.

But not only did that help

with the chemistry of our show, it taught me a very important lesson that I take with me to this day, which is to always, always be listening to the next generation or the next generation after that because they're they're the ones that are dictating what the culture is.

Yeah, that's why we listen to Zach.

That's what we're gonna ask.

That's nice before.

We're transitioning to pouring concrete.

That's our podcast now.

We had Danny on the show, I think it was like four or five years ago, maybe.

He told a great story about you guys and the April Fools joke that you played, where you had entirely like everybody on the show fucked him in the ass.

Yes.

And then he got to the last page and it said April Fools.

Now, was he into the script?

Like after three, four pages?

Did he like top breaks?

As he tells the story, I mean, we wrote,

it was actually us and the Chernin brothers who have worked with us and for us for years, and they also created my wife's other show called The Mick, and they're just like crazy funny guys.

And we had an idea, but you know, you don't have a lot of time in the writer's room, but April Foles was coming up, and Danny had done a few pranks.

pulled a few pranks on us.

And we thought,

how can we outdo him?

And we pitched it to the guys, and the guys sent us back a draft.

And Charlie and I then took a pass and went really hardcore.

But we're like, for it to work, he's got to believe that it's a real script.

So, like, let's make our storyline as real and as funny as we possibly can be.

So, he believes that this is true.

And then let's have him sent to prison in the opening scene.

And then, every scene after that is him being

abused by

different groups in the prison.

And each one put their own little spin on

how they express themselves in prison.

And Danny's

body

or Frank's body, I should say.

And he said he started like sweating because he thought the rest of the script was funny.

And he was like, I don't know what the punchline is going to be, but man, I don't know if I can do this.

Because he's done everything we've ever seen to do.

And finally, yeah, the last line was, Fuck you.

That's incredible.

You should film that episode for the last season.

That should be in the last season, whenever that happens to be.

it was brutal.

It was graphic.

And you guys are so good.

The fact that you've done 17 seasons through a lot of culture changes in America and like how, you know, comedy and there's all these discussions about it.

But I think what you guys do better than anyone else is, and you said it to start here, like all the characters are terrible people.

And that's what makes it work.

You can make fun of anything when the joke is kind of back at you.

Yeah.

Was that a conscious effort?

Oh, yeah, always.

It allows us to do these things because at the end of the day, we're not saying these are like good people.

They're bad people.

You shouldn't be rooting for them.

That's right.

Yeah.

And we never pander to the audience.

I always assume the best of people and that they'll understand the joke and satire.

And that if you're going to make a show about the worst people on the planet, then they're going to act accordingly.

And that gives you a tremendous amount of leeway in so many different areas.

And

the thing that I find fun

is depends on where I am in the country because

sometimes someone will come up to to me and say like, oh man, like I love how you come at the conservatives and it's like such a progressive show.

And I'm like, really?

Is that what you think it is?

Yeah.

And then I'll go into like a conservative part of the country and people will be like, man, how do you even live in LA when you're like killing the lefties on your show?

And I'm like, really?

Is that what you think it is?

Because

that is what we're doing.

We're basically looking at the entirety, the complexity of Western culture, American culture, and we're satirizing all of it.

And so I believe that

the audience, again, I never pander.

I assume that they understand what we're going for.

And ultimately, number one, we're out to entertain.

Number two, we want to make people laugh.

And number three, we want to get them to maybe look at hypocrisy from, you know, look at however way they look at the world through this very skewed prism.

And we have never once taken our foot off the accelerator.

Did you think about putting a laugh track in ever?

No, I mean,

we messed around with it when we were, we did like a couple of episodes where we put it in just for fun, but it would it wouldn't work, I don't think, on a on a show like that because it's so confusing where the laughter is.

Like sometimes, you know, people, you watch it with an audience and it's really fun because

people will laugh at different things.

And sometimes you do something, you assume the audience is going to love it and they don't give a shit.

And sometimes you just put something in and you just kind of forget about it and then it's becomes something iconic for them.

Yeah, it's also, it's sometimes patronizing to the audience when you watch a show and there's all this laughter and you're like, none of this was funny.

Yeah.

Who's laughing at that?

Why is that a joke?

Yeah, it's the same thing to me as I

don't know.

Look, everybody is entitled to their opinion socially, politically, whatever.

I feel like we have a tendency in our industry

to

need to express ourselves.

And again, it's everybody's right, but express ourselves outside of our medium and I kind of feel like a lot of the rejection from the public is people not saying stay in your lane they're saying hey you have a platform already with which you can express yourself in every way in every way you want and we're willing to check in with you for 22 minutes or an hour or an hour and a half or three hours or whatever So if you've got something to say, say it through that.

I don't necessarily need to see somebody who has that platform already then taking to another platform to express themselves.

To me, that that seems again

everybody has their right to do it but i would rather do it through the work yeah all right uh we're at the portion of the interview where i'm going to ask you a question about things that you probably have answered a million times sick of talking about but guess what you're here uh

the gaining the 60 pounds that was incredible uh although i was a little offended because like we do that every football season like just naturally uh how hard was it and also it's genius because i think you even said like a lot of times the actors will get hotter I wanted to get grosser.

But how hard was it to actually gain?

And what was the time frame for you to gain 60 pounds?

The time frame was three months.

Two and a half months.

Yeah.

Was it a lot of fun?

Yeah.

Sort of.

It was fun in the beginning.

And then and then it got less and less fun because we were getting closer and closer to production and we had written all these scripts that were addressing how large my character got and I wasn't putting it on.

You weren't big enough.

I wasn't big enough.

And like, it was almost an intervention.

I remember the moment very distinctly where Charlie and Glenn were like, can we talk to you?

And we have these like tense conversations all the time because we've got very close relationship.

And we close the door in the office, and they're like,

man,

you're not fat enough.

And, you know, we're going to shoot the fucking show in, you know, in like three weeks.

So you better double down.

So that.

That part was like, I was setting alarms in the middle of the night to wake up and eat.

And just a tip for anybody out there, cottage cheese is like the worst thing you can eat right before you go to bed because it metabolizes so slowly in your stomach.

So I was just like hammering cottage cheese and pineapples and like blueberries and anything with sugar in it.

And then I was taking ice cream and weight gainer and I was just melting the ice cream and then putting weight gainer in and put on, yeah, eventually the first 30 was easy.

The last,

you know, then the next 20 was brutal.

And the final 10 was really, really tough.

Did you just feel so gross?

I kind of felt great.

That's awesome.

Like eating all that food felt like shit.

Yeah.

But I was also powerlifting.

So the problem was that

I was gaining weight just in my gut and I didn't, it wasn't going anywhere else.

So I went to a trainer.

And I was like, I want to look as disgusting as possible.

And he's like, I've literally never heard that before.

But

I was like, I want to get a big fat ass.

And I want, so I was doing like powerlifting.

So I was, it was a weird thing because I was bench pressing and powerlifting at the same time.

I was also doing all this weight gainer.

So I was, I was in terrible shape because I wasn't allowed.

I had to walk slowly up the steps.

The trainer was like, I don't even want you skipping up the steps.

I want you to like never get your heart rate above whatever.

So I was just doing like the heavy, heavy, heavy bench press and squatting.

So I felt strong as shit.

I mean, like an Eastern European.

I was crazy strong, crazy strong.

And that, so that felt good.

At any point, my ligament, I'm sure like my ligaments were ready to block, my liver took a hit

and my kidneys were in rough shape.

But other than that, like I felt pretty good.

Apparently, Caitlin says that I snored like heavily.

So I had some sleeping issues.

But other than that,

I felt great.

Yeah.

And look, the point of it was like, I was watching in one of the episodes and decided to use a different take.

And even though the take that I had seen was funnier and I caught myself and I was like, why do I want to use a different take?

And I realized it was just like a moment of vanity.

I felt like I didn't like the way I looked in that.

And I was like, put that shit in check.

That is the point.

The whole point of this show is to make the anti-sitcom.

So the anti-sitcom is never to make a decision based on vanity.

That's when it sort of started for me.

In the offseason, I thought, okay, that was a scary moment where I almost made a vain decision.

How can I do the opposite?

So I pitched to everybody.

What if we all put on 60 pounds?

And everybody was like, fuck you.

Danny said yes.

I was like,

no,

I don't want to be responsible for killing Danny DeBara.

So I said, okay,

I'll just do it.

I'll just do it.

I wanted to make the...

I love, by the way, I love Friends.

I think it's a great show.

I've seen every episode.

I thought it was a really great show.

But they had already done that show.

I wanted to do the opposite.

I wanted to do the anti-Friends.

And so you watched in Friends as they got better and better looking as the years went on.

And because they had more money and they had better doctors and they had better diets.

And I thought these people live in a bar and

they treat themselves like shit, they would look like, they would look like garbage.

So that's what I should say.

I love it.

I'm happy I asked because I didn't know all of that story.

Like, that's, that's incredible.

What about when you got shredded?

How do you, how do you stay funny if you're actually like strong and muscular?

Well,

that is like the problem.

Like,

the better shape you are in, the less funny you are, just naturally.

Unless you

tell your friends in the show, I did this for you.

And the friends are like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Why?

And he did it just to impress them, but they're not impressed by it.

So ultimately,

getting ripped is just as sad.

And that's what we really try to go for.

What is the saddest version of these people?

And anybody who's like, that's the, even though, even though it's as vain as possible, you then tip over into the other side, into, into the extreme side of something.

And so

even, it was like the extreme vanity is what made it so pathetic.

Yeah.

Hey, man, we have to have an intervention.

You're not fat enough.

You're not fat enough.

Worse.

Did you do any steroids?

I did a bunch of creatine.

Okay.

And then when I got into like really ripped shape, no, I was still, yeah,

I did creatine, and then they had, it was like some kind of like fucking testosterone boosting, boosting supplements.

I like the honesty there because I do think it's very funny whenever like an actor gets into crazy shape in like three months for a role.

And it's like, here's what they did.

It's like, well, what about the other stuff?

Well, that's what I also, I put out a post around the same time.

And I was like, this is also like, I don't know, six or seven years ago, but I pointed out how how ridiculous, like, what it took to get into that kind of shape, yeah.

And that I had a trainer, and that I had a studio behind me that was paying for all of it, and I had somebody preparing my meals, and and so I wanted to make it like abundantly clear that this is a ridiculous thing to do.

It's a full-time job, right?

That I have a studio backing me for, and it's not a healthy way to live, yeah, you know.

So, yeah, so yeah, I mean, I

since then stayed in pretty good shape just because it feels good.

But going back to that is just ludicrous.

Yeah.

Another question you've probably been asked a lot about.

Smoke a weed with Snoop Dogg.

You got high with Snoop Dogg.

Are you going to do it again?

Would you ever do it again?

No, fuck no.

I was on Mars.

And

I don't smoke a ton of weed,

even though it's legal in California.

I just, it doesn't have the same effect on me that it seems to have on people.

It just like heightens my anxiety.

But if Snoop asked you to smoke a joint joint with him, you have to.

You have to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You can't turn that down.

So honestly, if he asked me again, I'd probably still say yes.

But

yeah, it was fun

because I got to hang out with him.

But the whole time I was having a conversation with myself, like, buddy, keep it together.

You're still on Earth.

You're sitting in a car in a giant van with Snoop watching the Lakers.

He likes the Lakers.

Just pretend to like the Lakers and go for the ride.

Were you self-conscious about how you're hitting the joint?

You're like, is this the the right way to, to take the blunt?

Am I, am I?

I don't think he was paying attention to me

how I was smoking it at all.

I think he wanted to see if I could hang.

Yeah.

So I was like, okay, I'll take that challenge.

Yeah.

He probably gets like, he probably gets high off challenging other people like that.

Like, hey, take a hit of this.

He definitely was keeping an eye on me just to make sure that I didn't like, I don't know, flip out, start taking off my clothes or some shit.

Yeah.

But yeah,

I finished it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, this has been awesome, Rob.

We really appreciate it.

it.

I had one last question.

It's a Roback question.

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The city of Philadelphia, your sports fandom,

are you nervous at all if the city of Philadelphia wins too many titles?

Does it change?

Because like the Eagles now have won two Super Bowls in the last, whatever it is, six or seven years.

You know, the Phillies have been good Sixers who knows but like is there any part of you that like in and would that play out in how you write the show as well well that that's a huge part of of why

the entire experience of being a sports fan works is and why

this is what welcome to Rexum is about right sport it's it's it's about fandom and really what it's about is about community and a community forged in tragedy because there can be only one at the end of each year in every and any sport.

And so there's something really beautifully human about that, that we are not forged in triumph.

We're forged in tragedy the vast majority of the time.

Your team loses, but you're doing it together.

And it helps,

I think, the reason,

one of the major reasons why people hold so desperately on to their fandom is because they want,

it's a way, especially for men, to communicate to each other, that they love each other and that they want to spend time with each other and that

they can bond with each other and they have something to talk about.

But ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a bunch of 25-year-olds that you don't know moving a...

a piece of plastic back and forth or putting it into a net or putting it whatever and we're we're putting all of this value onto it and I'm myself included I'm a massive sports fan.

But at the end of the day, that is not what's relevant.

What's relevant is who you're sharing that experience with.

And one of the things that I love watching is, you know, when

something good happens on the field or on the pitch, I love watching what people do.

I love watching fans, and we have cameras everywhere, like shooting everything.

And the first thing that people do is they rise, they put their hands in the air, and then they turn to the left, and then they turn to the right, and then they look down, and they look behind them, and they either high-five or they hug each other.

And that shows you what it's really about: which is you get to, you know, you get 85 years on this planet if you're lucky, and you get, and the only thing we have is time spent with each other.

Yeah, so sports becomes that.

So, that's the circuitous way of answering your question.

Um, I think

that my biggest fear coming into this year is

going to the Super Bowl, having it be the eagles playing the buffalo bills oh

it would it would be devastating yeah because first of all the entire nation would be rooting for the bills yep and philadelphia as an underdog city that that's a huge part of our identity get cucked it's really tough right and like i actually played golf with josh allen last week and he's the nicest guy yeah he's our friend yeah he's such a good guy he's an incredible player that that organization deserves to win that town deserves to win.

And those are the kind of identity checking moments that are really, really tricky.

Yeah.

But you still want to win.

Yeah, of course.

You still want to win every year.

So I don't know.

I hope we win the next five Super Bowls, but I also, it seemed to me like all my friends, all my Patriot friends, like they seem to enjoy it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The constant.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

I don't know.

That's a good answer, though.

That's a good answer.

But the Bills thing, that is, it would be,

you guys wouldn't have any leg to stand on, is like you know, like underdog Philly.

My dream scenario would be that we play the Chiefs again because then I

would root for you guys,

yeah.

I think so, but but you know, if

oh man, I would get killed if I even said about what I was about to say, so I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna

stop myself.

Max, our producer, right here, if you had said what you were about to say, he would have been he would have called you a pussy when you out of the room.

I would, I would,

so you did, it's good you would.

Yeah, I would love to see, I would would re, it's so difficult because I would love to win every Super Bowl, but man, it would great, it would be great to see the city of Detroit win a Super Bowl.

It would be great to see Cleveland, Cleveland,

Buffalo, because it feels fucking good, man.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, thanks, man.

This has been awesome.

Thank you.

Love having you on.

Best of luck this weekend.

And anytime you want to come back on, we'd love to have you.

Hell yeah.

Well, look, I'm a fan of you guys.

And it's just like, you know, that story I told about Danny, you,

I grew up listening to Sports hop radio in Philadelphia, and that's also something that unites us all.

But you know, you guys are the next generation of young people like talking about sports.

So I don't know that we can ever be 40, but yeah, I know, but that's still eight years, that's still eight years younger than me.

Yeah, WIP, I think that's its own

forever, yeah, forever, yeah, yeah.

I appreciate you having me on, yeah, thanks, Rob.

And now for something completely different,

okay.

Uh, we now have uh, our good friend Marty Fish on the show.

We thought last year we were talking.

Marty is an AWL.

He's also a two-time winner.

Hank actually said you were a seven-time winner.

I don't know if he told us a lot.

Yeah, I know I asked you.

I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, he did.

He said that.

Seven-time winner.

But we were like, Marty's the coolest dude ever.

He listens to the show.

Let's have him on.

He's going to go win this tournament this weekend.

So when you're watching on Sunday, you're going to see Marty Fish and be like, oh, that guy also listens to part of my take.

And he's the man.

So, Marty, thank you for coming by.

Are you going to win this tournament?

tournament?

Um, I get that question a lot.

Thank you for having me.

I am a big fan of the show, AWL.

Um, I was excited to meet Zach.

Yeah, well, everyone is a star, yeah.

He's a star.

I can't tell if he's serious or not, but he's dead serious, yeah, and I love it.

So nice.

Um, yeah, dude, thank you for having me on.

I'm a big fan.

Uh,

played okay, am I gonna win?

Um,

it doesn't golf is different, golf doesn't work like that.

Like, golf is like a lot of

extra stuff.

Like, golf is a lot of

bounces, a lot of luck, a lot of this, a lot of that.

Like, tennis is like, if you're better than somebody, you're going to beat them most likely.

I feel like I'm the best player here, but it doesn't mean, it doesn't mean a lot.

But I'd like to win.

Yeah, I did a bad job of introducing you.

You were a tennis pro.

Ninth in the world at one point.

Yeah, seven.

I got to seven.

Seven?

Seventh in the world at one point.

Won some tournaments.

Went to some,

you went to the gold medal game, right?

I did.

Yeah, I lost the.

You either win the gold, win the bronze, you either win the gold, lose the gold, or win the bronze.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

That's it.

Yeah, especially in like, not like a race.

Like, if you're in a race, you finish second, you're elated.

But I lost, and they gave me the, you know.

Silver.

So it's like, silver's worse.

I think silver's worse than bronze.

Yeah, absolutely.

I agree 100%.

Yeah.

You can, because the last thing that you remember when you win the bronze is obviously winning.

Yeah.

It gets another good thing.

You got to win to get the bronze.

Related, right?

Like, you've got a medal.

Right.

And I was devastated that I lost the gold.

Right.

And I was just standing there and they're playing the Chilean anthem.

And I'm like, this is a beautiful song, but like, this is the last thing I want to hear.

You lost to a guy that we don't even know.

I lost to a Chilean guy that you've never heard of.

And then, and then, I mean, he was a good player, but yeah.

And then, and then the guy that finished third was Chilean as well.

So those two, then when they do the, because I was up two sets to one, I mean, this is, I was up two sets to one in the final and a break in the fourth set.

So you don't know tennis first.

No, I do.

I'm following a little bit.

I got it.

But I was up big

and

I lost.

I ended up losing.

And then they're joining each other

in the middle on the podium,

belting out the Chilean ants.

It kind of looks like Texas, but it's not.

It does.

Wait, so what were you up in the fourth set?

I was up 3-1 serving in the fourth.

Two sets to one, three, one, served.

You blew it up.

I know.

I actually sat down like in changeover at one point, like at like up a break in the fourth, like legitimately going, like, holy shit, I think I'm going to win the gold medal like that.

Yeah.

And it like, it kind of flipped after that.

Don't do that.

But I mean, you're pretty sick at sports.

So I don't know.

Everyone here in this entire Lake Tahoe, you're like the mayor.

Everyone's like, I want to, you know, everyone.

Yeah.

You've won the tournament twice.

You beat, like think about i know obviously a gold medal olympics would be sick but you come out to this tournament and you beat like the biggest names in sports that's got to feel awesome golf but yeah no i mean look i played this is my 12th year and i'm a huge sports fan so like all these guys like i've wanted to meet anyways george kittle last night was at the player meeting and he just sat next to me and i was like hey george how you doing i'm marty and like then they they did something with my name i just assumed he didn't know who I was so then they did something with my with the previous champion or whatever and I had the trophy he's like oh that's you you know that I was like yes George knows me yes so yeah I try I try and like meet everybody yeah yeah it's cool why do tennis players grunt so much

um I mean you got to let out like the energy and emotion and energy I don't know like some people don't like Roger Fedder didn't didn't grunt at all um until like late late late in a huge match was the only time he ever grunted but then like with like there's WTA tour like there's a ton of grunting and they must, like, I think they practice it.

Like, WTA's the women's tour, yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah,

Monica Selles was you know, one of the worst Sheripova was loud when she got indoors as well.

Like, just would it bother you?

Would it fuck you up if someone was grunting like crazy?

I mean, a lot of like, do you get like some South American guys who would grunt and they would hit it and they'd go they'd hit it and then they'd go

so it hit their racket.

It's like, okay, now it's hitting their racket right now.

Like that.

It was like, come on.

You could say something.

It usually ends up saying something to them if you're losing.

Yeah, obviously, world-class tennis player, you're very close to being a world-class golfer, right?

Like, how far away are you from being a pro?

I mean, technically, I am because I accept the prize money here.

Yeah, smart.

Oh, that is.

What is the prize money?

So is Charles Barkley.

Oh, okay.

What is the prize money?

You win 150 grand if you win the tournament okay that's real money yeah that's real money kids go to a really expensive school that's real money need to win yeah like a tour guy like how how close are you to the

mid like median i get i i would get a maybe a shot and a half a side probably so like three shots around

okay something like that yeah yeah i think would be like a fair you know if i got two a side i'd feel really i'd feel pretty comfortable not against like scotty scheffler by any means but like if somebody could shoot mid-60s, then I would have to shoot like high 60s or low 70s.

What's your best round?

63, a bunch of 63s.

Damn.

I shot 63 here.

Damn.

And they say it's a course record here, but like, I don't know.

We played like different T-boxes and stuff like that.

So they said, I shot 63 in 2020.

It was the COVID year.

And then I came off and they're like, course record.

You beat Lee Trevino.

It was a course record.

I'm like, first of all, Lee Trevino played here.

Second of all,

the t-boxes have got to be like i'm not playing from the back tees i mean we got the t-boxes are all over the place yeah so i'm like driving you know you can hit driver on 11 um hank knows yeah hank does know so uh yeah the the t-boxes are all over the place too how close is hank to being a professional

yeah break down hank's game because you played so hank skipped a whole day of work yep uh played all 18 with you and jake owen uh said he had the best day ever while we were working yep we're all like these guys barely slept

don't know.

No, there was

sitting here being like,

did you bring a camera out with you?

No.

I phoned

some photos.

That would have been smart for an internet company, but go ahead.

I took some video.

So Hank comes up, says he's a 14.

And immediately, Jake is like, this is bullshit.

This guy's a sandbagger.

Because the first couple shot, you know, you like Rip's driver on two.

I mean, he was good.

He was like, I don't know, maybe

he'd be a really good traveling 14.

Like, I want Hank and a member guest.

Oh.

So, you get a lot of shots.

Is that a backhand compliment?

Because I've gotten that a few times, too.

Yeah.

It's like, it's like, yeah.

So, it's like we're saying, well, you're better than

you're saying you are.

Right.

Basically.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

You're better than you're saying you are is a sandbagger.

And I think, yeah, I think Hank, like, I think he could easily, he's got a gorgeous golf swing.

So, like, I think he could be a five-handicap, no problem.

You just gotta, you just gotta play.

You just gotta let him play more.

Oh, I I mean, yes.

Thank you.

I don't know if he physically could play more.

There's not enough time in the day for him to play more.

He's just got to play more.

You guys tape at night?

I mean, like,

later in the day.

So break down the weaknesses.

What are the weak points?

We hit one shank on a chip.

Chipping, yeah, like kind of around the green.

Like, he could get,

keep it in front of him.

He gets it up around the greens.

And then I feel like, too, he's gotten better.

We talked about this.

He's gotten better in his game, he says.

And so he's making bogeys.

And he's like, no, I'm totally fine with that in making bogeys.

I'm like, no, no, dude.

Like, you can make pars.

Like, we can, like, let's make five pars and four bogeys.

And let's not make any double bogies.

And so, yeah, he'd get to like number six, number seven, which is that par three that Steph hit a hole and one in two years ago.

And he'd

like, he'd play first six holes, like, really good, and then get to number seven and like, you know, hit pull one over there and then chip over here.

Oh, no, that was that was the one

that was the putt he had one okay he had the greatest putt i've ever seen in my life on number seven oh man we should have had on camera damn it that would have been sick he uh he okay so he he hit a pretty bad t-shot on seven and then and then hit a pretty bad chip um it rolled the pins in the front and this green is like a hundred feet and he the pins in the front and he's in the back and he he can like if i was playing in the tournament i'd chip it because he has to go over the corner of the the bunker basically and so he doesn't chip it he like just hits his putt it's like a it's like a putt putt putt like a mini mini golf putt and he just goes right through basically the fringe the rough and then the fringe again and then rolls all the way down takes the break and goes like two feet or like less than a less than two feet from the hole gimme great four great leg putt four on to the next our plan is working perfectly because if people didn't hate hank enough for golfing they're gonna hate him even more that we're just recapping his round yeah this is awesome can i get i fucking love love this.

This is what I do every time I set him up again.

Can I give you another strength of Hank's game?

Yeah.

You probably saw this once or twice.

When he hits a shot and then after he makes the contact, like he'll try to hit a draw, but he doesn't really know how to hit a draw.

And then after he hits it, then he'll start like twisting his club to the side.

Like he's willing it, like in the old Tiger Woods game.

You could put spin on it in mid-air.

He'll turn his body like

after the fact.

He's very good at that.

I got a dumb question for you, Marty, because watching you around here, you are the mayor of this whole tournament.

is having like an incredible golf game when you're not a pro, like one of the greatest, like, get you into places thing?

Because I feel like everyone wants to play with you, you know, everyone, everyone respects the hell out of you, and it's a lot because your golf game is so good, right?

I think that, um, what it's helped me in this tournament, like at least meet a lot of people because I don't feel like everybody knows me here.

And I've, you know, and I've 15 years ago, I retired, no, 10 years ago.

I retired exactly 10 years ago in September.

So

I feel like everyone kind of looks at the top of the leaderboard usually, or like who's winning or who's around there or whatever.

So then I can like go and say hello.

And I'm pretty friendly.

So I'll like, I'm not afraid to like go say hi to somebody.

Yeah.

And like them tell me to fuck off or like, I don't know you or who is.

You can feel that.

Yeah.

But then most, most everybody, and that's the fun part about this place is most everybody's super friendly.

It's a pretty humbling place.

Like that, the player meeting last night, like Steph is there, Aaron Rodgers is there.

The guys that like, Justin Gage is there, like guys that like like are the top of the top and like you're just sort of sitting in there too, and it's cool.

You're the top of all of them.

It's really cool.

That's cool.

Golf, though.

That's something

they all want to be the best at.

Yeah.

They want to be those guys do for sure.

Yeah, they want your golfer.

I could probably sell my game.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot of money.

Yeah.

If you could do that, I would do that.

If you had picked golf instead of tennis, would you have been a professional golfer?

Because you were playing tennis when you were two, right?

Yeah.

I played golf and tennis and baseball at a pretty high level and like junior or whatever.

I stopped baseball at 13 i stopped golf at 14.

so i played like junior golf and junior tennis like kind of trying to um figure out which one or whatever which one i liked more and i like be the whitest guy ever the other yeah

they say the country club bo jackson

that's great um and so they're like so that yeah so they um so they're trying to i'm trying to figure out which one my father is a tennis teacher he teaches at a club um in viewer beach florida and he pushed me towards tennis he's been going to the u.s open before i was born as a fan yeah So I showed like a little bit of promise in tennis and it was like all tennis.

So I played like junior golf.

I was a good junior, you know, junior player and whatever.

I think I could have figured it out, but tennis was the one.

I think it also helps that you've got a cool name.

Yeah.

Marty Fish.

Alfred Simpson Fish.

I didn't deal with that my entire life.

Could have been, that's a great name for a country singer.

Marty Fish.

Marty Fish.

Yeah.

And it's with a D, too, which is great.

Yeah.

Marty with a D.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah.

All right, so this week you are you're going to win?

Can you win for us us so that when people watch and...

Do you guys bet on it?

No.

Well, I mean, I should.

I will.

Yeah, I will.

Okay.

Are you sponsored?

Sponsored by.

Would you like to be sponsored by Part of My Take?

I'd love to be sponsored by Part of My Take.

I have a Part of My Take hat.

Yeah.

You want to wear that hat?

I'd love that hat.

Yeah, wear that hat.

Yeah.

Here, I'll trade you.

Gaymorn.

I'll trade you hats.

There it is.

All right, so you're going to be wearing that hat when we watch on.

Well, I got to.

Well, I'll ask the guys if I can wear that hat.

No, you can wear that.

They paid you?

Okay, I don't want to take money out of of your pocket.

No, no.

Can you wear that?

Oh, definitely.

Yeah, that it is.

There it is.

Could Hank ever play in this tournament?

Could you get him in this tournament?

It would be very fun.

We're going to get in this tournament.

What about me?

What if I get good people?

I could get a lot of people in this tournament.

Hank, no?

That's a tough one.

Zach?

What about Zach?

I could get Zach in.

Zach's the nicest dude ever.

Zach's like, no, I don't want to play.

Do you think PFT and I will ever play in this tournament?

I'd have to get so much, so much much better at this.

Yeah, you guys should 100% play in this tournament.

Yeah.

You guys should just have the, you should do the threes.

Just do a threesome.

That would be hilarious if they allow it.

Like, they can't win it, but they're just going to do a three-man scramble.

Snowball.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Just see what it is.

This is part of my take score.

They can't technically win it, but we're just going to put it up on the leaderboard.

It'd be good for TV.

I think that's the only way we can play up at the pace of play.

It would be very funny.

I think we could actually figure that out.

Throw that out to them.

I will.

Because the other part of that is like, we would just fight the entire time.

Like, when we do scrambles together, it's just a, it's a fight on whose ball is better.

Is there like another podcast that you guys can play?

Caller Daddy?

All the golf podcasts are significantly better than us.

Yeah, maybe not them.

Yeah.

We could find one.

Come town.

No free ads.

United.

But like, no free ads on anyone.

But like

the Labatar guys, can we just...

Yeah, we'd play them.

Yeah, we'd smoke them.

Yeah, we'd smoke them.

Smoke them.

Rosillo by himself.

I brought Rosillo out.

I brought Rosillo out a couple weeks ago to Bel Air Country Club.

And I didn't know he was that bad at golf.

How bad are we talking?

He's too strong.

He is too strong.

He's too strong.

His back's getting away.

His stomach's too big.

He's too strong.

Absolutely.

Absolutely big.

His stomach is too big to get around the club.

Oh, no.

He's got a great golf body.

He's got too much muscle, but he's got a great golf body otherwise.

Okay.

He's got a great golf body.

Besides the whole body.

Besides, he's got all the muscle.

If you take away

three-quarters of the muscle,

perfect golf body.

He's shaped like a pear.

Yeah, his entire pill.

Anyways, I brought him out and I was like, you know, Rosillo, we actually talked about you guys.

Yeah, I love this guy, whatever.

Yeah, he was like a, I didn't know, he was like a 20-handicapped.

Yeah.

I don't think he golfs a lot.

No, well, yeah.

He's locked into tape.

I think he hits balls a lot.

Yeah, he might.

Goes out to the, you know, the local muni and hits balls.

Yeah.

had, I had one last question.

Were you the first person, athlete, professional athlete, to talk about mental health?

Because that's kind of cool.

And I'm not saying it as like a brag, but like we've gotten to a place now in sports where we actually, as fans, like realize, oh, these are human beings, where I think 15 years ago, that just didn't exist.

I mean, it took me three years to actually talk about it

openly, outwardly to non-close friends and family.

I mean, I know that Michael Phelps talked about it early.

It seemed like my Netflix doc came out at a perfect time where they actually waited because COVID happened and they waited a year to start those untold series on Netflix.

And it came out like a year after

everyone was locked up and all that.

And like, I'm sure, I mean, that was a hard time for a lot of people

mental health-wise.

And so,

yeah, that was, it was a, it felt like I was doing, um,

doing good by sharing my story, educating people on what it, what it is and how it, what it looks like or how it feels.

Um, and then, yeah, and then giving people a success story to go, okay, there's someone who, like, I may or may not have heard of them or it's an easy Google search, but like, he used to play tennis and was kind of in the fire and.

got taken away by mental health, by severe anxiety disorder, and

then was able to go back and play again, like in the same place that he couldn't play before three years later.

And like, I wanted to share that success story.

And a lot of guys now are coming out.

I mean, I look back, that was 2012.

I look back, I didn't play in 2013 at all.

And I didn't play the U.S.

Open and put out like a press release or something.

It was probably on Twitter, but like something like that, where it was like, I'm not playing, can't play.

Knee's still bothering me.

And it had nothing to do with my knee.

Right.

So it was still, I still wasn't comfortable saying that.

People are more comfortable now.

It helps that guys like Max Crosby and guys like Tyson Fury and, you know, these are like, I mean, to call them soft or to call that, you know, not tough, to, you know, suck it up, you, you know, you're soft, whatever,

to tell those guys that, I mean, they're the opposite of that, obviously.

And so, um, you know, having, having those guys and then and then, you know, seeing Simone Biles and seeing Naomi Osaka and guys like, you know, ladies like that come out and, you know, at the top of the top of their sport

is nice to see them being able to do that.

I don't know if I had any impact on that.

If I did, awesome.

If I didn't, great too, because they're still talking about it.

Yeah, you would have beaten Frederick, too.

100%.

Yeah.

You just got to say, I lost him the week before that, and I was like super close, too.

So I definitely wouldn't have beaten him had I taken the court in that moment.

But

I was in bad shape.

Cedar Goat?

No, Novak is.

Yes.

Good answer.

Novak is just because

it's like Roger.

Roger won one French.

He's the best grass score player ever, but then he won one French Open.

Novak has won a few French, and like, I mean, he's won, I think, 12 Australian opens.

I mean, just incredible.

And I played all,

I played the three of them a bunch, and I never beat Novak.

I just, like, he was, everything came back.

Everything came back, and everything came back with interest, and everything came back deep in the corners and like just never gave you anything you had to earn everything and roger and rafo were like you could you could roger would dump some balls and like he'd try some shots that normal people wouldn't try even professional normal professionals wouldn't try but um and then rafo was like

roger's the most talented player ever like he's the like the most talent

laden person in I mean maybe in like any sport Michael Phelps is like have you guys seen Phelps in person?

He's a human dolphin.

He's a human dolphin.

Don't forget about Joey Chestnut, though.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's big.

Yeah, yeah.

We just saw him.

Michael Phelps is a human dolphin.

Like, his torso is his entire body.

Like, it's insane.

Yeah.

So, yeah,

Roger was like born to play tennis.

He's built to play tennis.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, I have one last dumb question.

I never understood about tennis.

When you guys just like give up on sets, what's the point they give up on a set?

What's the number?

Like, where it'll be like 4-1 and they'll be like, I'm just not going to try anymore.

Well, it's got to be a three-out of five set match, or you got to be, or it's got to be super hot, or

you're playing somebody who's way better than that.

Because you'll see, like, Joker will sometimes, like, he'll win a match, and he lost the second set six to one.

You know, it could happen.

For Novak, he's an inch.

I mean, tennis is super mental.

Like, it's in, like, it really, you leave the locker room, you're all by yourself.

Go figure it out in front of 15,000 people, like, just, and, and and people watch, whatever, like, just figure it out.

And, uh, and so you don't have anyone to bounce things.

You don't have a caddy, you can't call timeout.

You don't even, you know, you can't sub somebody in for you.

So it's like, holy shit.

Um,

those guys, yeah, like

when you get to a point where it's double break, and maybe you're playing, like, so two break, like you've lost your serve twice in the set, and you're playing somebody that's way better than you or better than you, and you need to, like, it's all conserving energy.

Right.

But like Novak, honestly, I feel like he needs needs the

he he's so much better than these guys that like he he'll go second set second round match in a grand slam and he'll lose the second set 6-1 like you said and it's like where did that come from he i honestly god i think he does it to like fire like to like to put himself in uncomfortable situations right like it legitimately does like he's like he needs to like go at his his player box and like you know get feisty on the court and if he's not he's not his his himself i think that's why people don't love watching him play or don't love love him watching him play as much as the dollar federer because they're such a classy classic like roger's such a classic classy player rafa's like you know that brute like kind of strength and like in your face bull but he's a sweetheart of a guy and like novak is also very nice but you don't he does his personality doesn't come out because he's like sometimes he looks like a dick on the court because he's like going at his player box or yelling at someone or you know talking to the umpire or whatever but he's like putting himself in these like weird situations to like fire himself up.

I guess it's the thing too, because if you try to conserve energy, you're also conserving your opponent's energy because you're not working hard.

So it's like we're both getting a break here.

You're just and sometimes I mean you can get into you know there's in the summer after Wimbledon what's going on right now that there's a bunch of tournaments in the States.

It's Washington DC it's Cincinnati.

It's obviously New York and U.S.

Open like in the dead of summer.

You know, there was a tournament in Atlanta dead of summer.

I mean, it's

110 degrees and 150 on the court, right?

Like it's like incredibly hot.

And so sometimes your body like just doesn't respond and there's and you can't call it it's like I can't sub somebody in because I didn't sleep well the night before

Wimbledon is this weekend right the finals yeah yeah so who won uh they're no we're running this tomorrow but who

will win I think I think Novak wins this yes okay I really do I think this is I think this is the last thing he gets the 25 majors and I think this is the last one he wins

I don't think he can win like a hardcore he can't win the French and then he's I don't think like with center and Alcaraz I mean it can happen but like i don't think he can win a slam outside of wimbledon anymore these amazing grass court players did you ever see the the battle of the surfaces i'd forgotten about it and people tweeted at me it was federer against nadal and they made the court half grass half clay i remember that didn't they play didn't router and andre play on like the top of a helipad oh yeah in like yeah yeah yeah yeah that was i don't know who won that one though um all right well marty you're the man uh Thank you for listening, and also we're going to be rooting hard for you.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, very special guests.

Yeah, big fan.

Yeah.

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Okay, let's wrap up the show.

We got Fire Fest of the Week.

Hank, Chill Week?

Fire Fest of the Week?

Yeah, I mean, it's tough to have a fire fest on chill week i do have one but it's you do yeah you didn't get to play more golf with marty fish i i already missed marty yeah

he's he's a great golfer great guy great better

better person than golfer

it's tough it's a toss up a yes okay okay that's kind of disrespectful to his golf game yeah no he's a great golfer but he's just an even better dude yeah um

no my fire fest of the week which it's one of those things where it's it sounds crazy to say i'm i'm not that upset about the fact that I lost $8,000 PFT in a long drive contest because is that video out?

It's out.

It came out today.

Okay, I love it.

It came out Thursday.

Go watch it.

Long drive contest.

PFT, basically after the dunk thing ended, the day of, was like, all right, let's do a long drive contest, $1,000 a yard.

And I shook his hand really without processing what the bet was.

Are you calling me predatory?

No, it was just one of, I shook your hand.

I agree.

I was just thinking, Hank, you take advantage?

No, a guy like me, I'm always thinking of content.

I'm always thinking about producing videos, content for the show.

And so I'm thinking to myself, okay, what's next up now that Hank failed to dunk?

Let's get another challenge for Hank.

Yeah.

So for the last six months or whatever, it's been kind of like, you know, back of my head, like, I'm fucked.

Like, PFT can hit it at the time probably 60 yards, 70 yards easily further than me.

So I was looking at a big check.

He hurt his back.

Honestly, I thought I was going to win because his back was so injured and he wasn't able to, you know, fully unload on a drive.

My torque was compromised.

i ended up only losing uh by eight yards eight thousand dollars which again like it sounds crazy because it is a lot of money but i'm i'm like pretty happy with that can i can i offer you something and then i found out i owe them another thousand which i don't i i we i don't i don't know well i'm not making you pay the other thousand i went back through through my through my zell history and i found that in 2022 i had uh well you found all you have never accepted a zelle yeah i didn't know that i had to accept them and so i go back and all the payments that i've gotten there are from people who are paying me like 50 bucks 100 bucks whatever and then back in 2022, I see an outstanding payment from Hank Lockwood, and we were trying to figure out where it was from.

We think it was at the Final Four in New Orleans at the casino.

I think I gave you a thousand bucks to gamble with that night.

But I was such a nice guy that I'm going to waive that debt, and then I'm not going to make you pay me the $8,000 in cash for the drive.

I'm going to make you work it off maybe via a series of parlays.

I also have a deal for you.

Like,

so you owe him $8,000.

I'm willing to match and double

you oh you owe pft eight thousand yeah right is that right yeah i'm willing to match and double so that's sixteen thousand so you you would get your debt cleared and you would make eight thousand dollars

and all you have to do is a one-hour comedy special that we put out on the part of my take youtube and it has to have a million views

No thanks.

Okay.

All right.

Well, hey, listen, I was just thinking about content.

I'm always willing to figure out ways to negotiate this, Hank.

How about getting a cat?

Ooh.

How about a soul patch?

No.

How about dunking?

I'll tell you what.

How about abs?

Abs are coming.

I mean,

I had abs at one point, maybe not after the last two or three weeks.

Listen, the

Boston to Chicago to Boston.

uh pebble to to tow i'm burned out yeah that's a lot that's so much that sounds hard i'm burnt out no traveling for like two weeks for me You sound like Mincy.

Hank, I can waive that debt as well, and

I'll pay you $8,000 if Max gets a soul patch.

Wait, that's

why you do that deal, Max.

I'll give you $500.

I'll put it with him.

Yeah, I get $4,000.

$200.

I will

happily decline that.

$4,000 for a soul patch?

No, thank you.

Zach, what are your thoughts on the soul patch?

I think $4,000 soul patch.

You got to take soul patch.

All right, if we're offering money around Zach, what about 10K?

You want 10K cash?

What do you need me to do for that?

Just a little sex tape.

I want to see how much you're not an indoor course guy.

He's more of an outer course guy.

Nobody's watching that weak stroke game.

That's not going to be.

Okay, all right.

That's fine.

Offer's there, though.

If you ever get a jam, I appreciate it.

10K.

Hank, honestly, like you improved a lot.

Most improved driver award.

The MID, the middle.

You were close, dude.

I mean, you also had, like, people who should watch the video, but Hank had, I think, four really good drives.

PFT just hit one bomb.

PFT hit one low, low, like, hit a perfect drive.

But I'm happy with my effort.

Just the result wasn't what we wanted.

You'll get there, Hank.

You'll get there.

You'll get there.

And maybe you'll get the trackman working.

Yeah.

As the golf guy.

I will get the trackman working.

That's a promise.

Me and you two will be grinding.

Next week, we're back to the grind.

And it's good to have my relationship with Hank back, not as competitors, but as

what CEO?

Yeah, the field came out.

I think it's a gettable field.

When is

the field for the Internet Invitational?

I'm excited about it.

I was looking at the lineup.

It's gettable.

There's no one on there that I think can be you.

I'm feeling good about my game.

Rick Shields, bring it on, bitch.

When is our other

Chill Week videos coming out?

In the next...

Couple weeks.

Okay, because we got two more videos that are great.

One is the Usain Bolt versus Joey Chestnut challenge, which was great.

And the other one,

maybe the end of me and Hank's friendship for a brief moment.

Our friendship was over.

We had like three holes, yeah.

Yeah.

I think the exact words were, I'm pretty much done with you, is what Hank told me.

There was no pretty much.

It was just, I'm done with you.

It was, I'm done with you.

I'm done with you after this or something.

He goes, I'm for real done with you.

This isn't a joke anymore.

Like, it's not like when this video is over, we're going to be fine.

I'm done forever.

I think I'm done forever was the words that came out of it oh it's a great time very chill it was very chill

oh all right PFT you got your fire fest yeah my fire fest of the week is fire fest oh I think it might be my fire fest okay Billy McFarland from firefest hit me up two days ago

As he does, we've got a little texting relationship.

Don't really hang out that much, but one day we'll start to chill.

He hit me up a couple days ago.

He said, hey, PFT, just want to let you know I'm selling the Firefest ip oh if you're interested in purchase purchasing it so i got the link right here you can own the fire festival you can own the brand the trademark the ip the social media assets and more

it's for sale on ebay right now you know how much it is okay sale on ebay so is it is it a is there a minimum

well no it's it's a it's an auction is there a buy it now There's no buy it now.

Is there any bids on it?

There have been 114 bids.

Oh, I think it probably probably is

i was gonna say ten thousand

okay maybe i won't buy this anymore okay what is it it's 205 000 right now 250 hank hank you gotta chip you gotta stop spilling this coffee hang what are you doing dude you've spilled the coffee twice in the last minute

we're good by the way still one more day in amazon prime for still blue coffee uh wait 205 000 205 000 for firefest that's a lot of money do you think that's a good investment uh no 205

yeah $2,500, maybe.

I mean, the brand equity alone and the documentaries have been made about Firefest.

How are you going to make $205,000 back if you own Firefest?

I'm going to do Firefest.

But why can't we just do Firefest?

Yeah, we could just do it ourselves.

But then do it F-I-R-E.

And we

light each other on fire.

We want the world.

Now, okay.

We already did the data.

Oh, hold on a second.

What if we just have an actual Firefest and we're just like flamethrowers?

uh you thought about burning man yeah but but but like fun burning man not like weirdo burning man i'm talking about like basically just a fire fest where it's us as 12 year olds when you first realize that you can light a match and you're like this is awesome pyro fest pyro fest pyro fest yeah fireworks yeah okay so the fact that you guys thought it would be like five thousand dollars or or less what are you getting nothing yo you get i i just said you get the iconic brand yeah

i have a question what do you mean you get it?

You get the IP.

You own Firefest.

You own the IP.

If someone owns the IP,

if someone purchases the IP of Firefest, can that person sue us for this segment?

No.

Fuck.

No, definitely not.

No Maj.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, okay.

Also, okay, they sue us and we just say, okay,

we'll just end every Friday show with, what was the worst thing that happened this week to you?

New segment.

Damn.

Got us.

I'm considering it very strongly, but I'm less so now that you guys thought that the value would be so much less than what they're asking for.

Yeah, that seems like

when you play whose line is it in, wait for that.

The market is way off.

All right, so now I'm thinking about it from a bigger picture.

I would be spending $200,000 on a name for a festival that has not happened twice.

Yes.

And you might like pick up the existing lawsuits.

Like, if I know Billy,

I would fire Billy.

That's true.

Death.

You might be getting sued.

Act one, day one.

Billy, you're fired.

And also, you're now

there's some lawsuits that.

Yeah.

Which actually would be a genius move by him.

It would be a great move.

It's all up to this guy right now.

Yeah.

Maybe I'd get my dick sucked, though, for a case of water.

Case of water, yeah.

Yeah, we get him some body armor.

Okay, well, I'm considering it less so, but still it's rolling around in there.

Okay.

All right, my firefest.

I got two.

The first one, we're out here.

chill week, Tahoe, awesome.

Thank you to the American Century Classic, or American Century Championship.

Yep,

championship.

Awesome event.

Shout out, Steve, for hooking it up for us.

We love coming here.

Hopefully you can come here every year.

But it's a great event.

And part of the event is like, there's a lot of really cool athletes, stars, you know, just hanging out, doing the driving range, getting on the golf course.

And I happened to run into an old nemesis of mine who's now, I would say, we're on good terms, but one Aaron Rodgers.

And I said to him, do you just not respond to text anymore?

Because I had, I think I was at about six blue bubbles with him.

And I want to say this time, it was not me like asking him to come on the show.

I was maybe asking for an update of whether he was going to sign with the Steelers.

Can I give you Jersey Jerry's number?

Yeah, there was a Jersey Jerry text in there.

So it wasn't me like asking for anything, but he had not responded for months and months and months.

So I went up up to him.

I was like, would you just not respond to text anymore?

He said, yeah, I'd changed my number.

And I was like, oh, okay.

Well, that explains that.

I will never have Aaron Rodgers' new number.

And then our friend Marty Fish, who Hank played golf with, was standing next to Aaron.

And he was like, big cat, I'll give you Aaron's new number.

I was like, oh, great.

So I'm back.

He sent me the new number.

I went to text Aaron being like, got your new number.

And it was just the same number.

And he was just, he basically was just trying to end the conversation with me by saying he has a new number.

But he's seen every text.

That's a classic move.

Yeah, I felt like like such a fucking fool so the fact that that it's you type the number and then yeah all my texts were right there and i was like god damn it the fact that it's blue bubbles is that that means he doesn't have you muted though right uh i don't know or he hasn't blocked you i well no he might have i don't know when you told me that he changed his number the first thing i did i was like well i'm gonna send his old number to jersey jerry because now it's the old number uh oh so now jersey jerry has aaron rogers real number but that's aaron rodgers fault that's his fault for a lot for telling me for telling you a lie But I did, I have to tip my cap.

That's a hilarious move to just tell someone you change the number and like just let them walk off.

It's a good move.

Yeah, so good move by him.

And then the other Fire Fest is just time zones.

I hate Pacific time zone.

It sucks.

Everything's just two nights in a row, I've just pulled.

What?

You love it?

I don't hate it.

Okay.

I've pulled up.

Like, we have long days, and I'll pull up the Cubs game being like, I'm going to watch the Cubs game in my hotel room.

And they're just like, oh, they're down eight, nothing.

It's the eighth inning.

Fuck.

Yeah, you get the notifications that games are starting here at like 2 p.m.

Yeah.

It's like, wait, we're playing another day game today?

What's going on?

The Mets and Orioles are playing right now.

It's 9 a.m.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

It makes no sense.

So I'm not a fan of the Pacific time zone.

Everyone always says it's the best time zone for sports.

I couldn't disagree more.

Yeah, I don't like the idea of waking up and having breakfast while football is coming up.

And I've said it before, but you like, so it's the, they always.

That'd be the number one conversation we've had on this show.

Yeah, well, on the internet has it.

They always say, oh, well, 9 a.m.

or whatever, 10 a.m.

NFL Sunday.

It's like, all right, and then what do you do at 8 p.m.

on Sunday night?

There's no more football.

Yeah, football is not a breakfast sport.

Tennis is a breakfast sport.

Correct.

Golf can be a breakfast sport.

Football championship coming up.

Football is a beer sport.

Yeah.

Soccer is a morning sport.

Soccer could be either way.

Yeah.

Yeah, mostly morning.

Yeah.

Soccer's a hungover sport.

Yeah.

Football, you need to have your wits about you.

Yep.

So, all right, Zach.

My favorite fish of the week, we did travel this week, is personally packing.

So I've got, right now, I probably have like 11 pairs of underwear, four phone chargers, and two pairs of headphones, but I've got two pairs of shorts.

Didn't bring toothpaste, had to acquire that late in the game.

Also, no shaving cream.

So I'm somehow ended up way...

You're shaving with shaving cream?

Do I opt somewhere else?

I didn't even know you shaved.

Do you have a full beard?

Straight line.

I just trim it up a little bit.

Do you do it every day?

No, just whenever it's like

disheveled.

okay but uh somehow i ended up really tech heavy in my backpack and no clothes so wait you just have no clothes i i have two pairs of shorts an insane amount of boxers but way too many chargers i can't wear two pairs of headphones like it's it's not good yeah at all that is not good what about socks socks uh

i i do have quite a couple pairs of socks but i didn't match them correctly before leaving so like they're two different styles of socks so like we got like high arch support on the right and then no arch support on the left oh no this one starts moving around It's not good.

I've never packed the appropriate amount of socks.

I always pack like two pairs on a five-day trip or I'll pack like 12 pairs on a three-day trip.

Never the right amount.

Do you have bad arch support?

I don't have any arches, but

the bands for the arch support, we either got to be tight on both sides or not at all.

Oh,

super five feet.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're all fucked up.

A little bit.

Yeah.

Okay.

Who's the person you were like, that's cool that he's here?

Like celebrity where you were the most starstruck.

I did hear murmurs of Baker Mayfield being here.

I saw him this morning.

How was that?

Great.

Really?

Yeah.

How was his energy?

Great.

You could kind of feel around.

Fantastic.

That's good energy.

That's awesome.

That's so cool.

Fantastic.

I love that for you.

Yeah.

I wish you had been there.

That would have been.

Yeah.

We'll try to figure out a way for you to meet him.

What would you say?

You want to practice?

Do a practice interview.

Hanks, Baker Mayfield, do a practice interview.

Yo, what's up, big cat?

What's up, PFT?

What's up?

Hey, Baker.

What's going on?

Hello, Baker.

I'm Zach.

Nice to meet you.

How are you?

I'm good.

About to go hit some balls.

That's awesome.

How's your golf game doing today?

Not great.

We're just going to try and hit them straight, have a good time, you know.

You get into anything fun for the offseason?

Just training, you know?

That's it.

Anything else?

Any kind of like whimsical fun stuff?

No.

No?

There.

Hall ball.

I love that.

Little ball, yeah, a little golf.

Awesome.

Take the boat out.

Sweet.

Oh, you're a boat guy?

Huge boat guy.

Swim guy?

Yeah, I swim too.

Sick.

How about you?

Yeah, we could hit the boat sometime.

No, no, no, no, no.

As if you were a boat guy.

Oh, but I dabble.

Yeah.

Nice.

It's great to meet you, Baker.

Shout out to you.

You too.

What's your name?

You're kind of the man.

Zane.

What was that?

What's your name?

Oh, Zach.

Nice to meet you, Baker.

Yeah.

You're busy.

I get it.

100%.

All right, guys.

I appreciate meeting you, man.

I'm kids on that interview, by the way.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sorry about that.

Sorry about that.

Baker.

I gotta go.

He's kind of a weird guy, but we love him.

That was a good interview.

That was good.

Fair.

I also like dropping a whimsical wasn't a good idea.

Also, invited himself onto his boat.

Oh, I thought he opened up with a boat.

He said, I have a boat, and he said, we could boat sometime.

Misread.

Yeah, that was a misread.

Thank you for that.

That's okay.

That's why we practice.

We practice, right?

Because we're practicing training camp.

I won't do any of that if we meet him.

Yeah, sure, but I'd love to be your best friend.

No,

if we somehow meet him, you have to drop a whimsical.

Yeah, you have to.

Okay.

All right.

I'm going to do that for you.

All right, perfect.

Love that.

Good job, Zach.

Great job.

Zach's done great this week, by the way.

Yes, he is.

He's Julian Edelman, our guy, Jules, said he's rookie of the year.

Rookie of the Year, how about that?

Yeah, that was a lot.

Uh, I'm not sure how I don't know how to respond to Rookie of the Year.

That was very kind of him to say.

I didn't see that coming.

Uh,

he's a man, okay.

Nice, nice, shout out to him, shout out to him.

Uh, okay, good show, boys.

Great week.

Do we have any other fire fests?

Any uh

like anything else onion-related anything else happened?

Leaving dinner, fire fest, storming out, any storming-out moments that happen.

Firefest,

no one?

Max, memes, Shane, anything?

Well, at one point, we went to dinner last night, and I didn't want onions on my tuna melt, so I got upset.

Yeah.

And then Pug asked me if I sleep with an onion.

That really, really set me off, so I stormed out of dinner and went home.

Oh, wait, no, that wasn't me.

That was Shane.

Shane.

Shane,

you stormed out of dinner.

You stormed.

You stormed out out of dinner.

That was the definition of a storm.

It went from I thought you were going to punch Pug to then you just I didn't hear the pug question, by the way.

They talked to me afterwards.

I did not hear the pug question.

Oh, we thought you left because of Pug.

No, because Pug roasted your ass.

Yeah.

I thought you were going to hit Pug.

We were talking about how Big Ed sleeps with a pillow, or most of these guys sleep with a pillow under their legs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Shane said something, and Pug was like, Do you sleep with an onion?

Yeah.

Which also made no sense.

No, it was not.

It made no sense.

Pug was just feeling it.

He was tapping in like a madman last night.

Follow him on tap in but shane you you you stormed out of dinner i could feel like an av one gangbang about to happen

it was so you shane doesn't shane has some particular things that he likes and doesn't like when it comes to food he did get lied to when we went to this place and asked if the tuna salad had onions the guy said no and then the first thing that you saw was an onion that set it off on a bad foot but when you didn't set it up what the set off was we were in line and it was tuna salad was on the menu and I just asked the guy is there onions in the tuna salad?

And you would have thought I pulled out a pistol and shot this man.

Everyone was so surprised that I asked that.

What was his reaction?

Who was giving you?

He said, no, there's no onions.

Who was giving you the shit?

Everybody, they call me a pussy.

I think the

word pussy was implied.

I don't think it was said.

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure memes called me a pussy.

Yeah, I know.

He might be next to me.

He might have called you a pussy.

Oh, child.

Child.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, like, it's not an uncommon thing.

Like, every time we order.

You don't like onions.

Yeah, I don't like onions.

But you do like onion rings.

I mean, they're fine.

That got you on that one.

They're fine.

Onion ring, yeah.

But also, onions are in everything.

That's a tough thing to not like to eat because they just sneak them into all sorts of sauces.

You probably get surprised by onions every day.

I mean, you got back to the definitely.

Tell us what happened when you stormed off.

I've never, I don't remember the last time I've seen a storm off.

It wasn't like, it wasn't as dramatic as it was pretty, we were sitting there all having dinner, having a couple beers, great live music.

And

you just said, you know what, fuck you guys.

And you got up and left.

I did not say that.

It was the opposite.

What did you say?

I said, thank you for the meal.

And then I turned around and walked away.

You were being gasped.

No way that happened.

I did say thank you.

I did 100%.

Okay, but then you stormed off.

Well, I walked away.

You got up.

We were all, we sat there for like an hour later.

You leapt to your feet.

Yeah.

It was a leap to your feet.

Yeah, there was a chance I thought you were going to

go and attack Pug for Astronomy.

I didn't even hear the Pug thing.

I just knew the tides were turning and it was.

It was time for you to go.

You mean like

when I got back, I apologized.

Oh, you did?

Oh, okay.

Well, you guys know how these trips go.

I'm like averaging four hours of sleep this week.

Right.

Yeah, that's fair.

You guys work your asses off.

It's not chill for the behind the scenes guys.

Shout out to some guy Matt, too, who's been with us all week.

I was just hangry, and I apologize.

Yeah.

Can I tell you one discussion that happened when you left the table?

I mean, you can tell me.

Okay.

Well, I would like your take on it because we had theories.

Okay.

In a hypothetical world, we were saying if Shane showed up today, so we were saying tomorrow when we start taping with a gun.

And he was going to kill all of us, who would he kill in what order?

And we were all very much, Eames would be killed first, without a doubt is that fair

this is hypothetical this is hypothetical this is hypothetical you're asking me yeah this is hypothetical it's a crazy hypothetical yo it's just i don't know how to i don't know how to respond i think it was memes max

you're asking who i would kill first yeah yeah yeah come on it's a fun hypothetical memes max fun was it hank we said hank but then hank was like no i think you'd go pug pug would you go pug

I would kill myself before I killed no

oh wow but definitely you'd kill memes first I'm not I'm all right right, gun to your head.

Gun to your head.

No answer is a gun to your head, yeah.

No answer is a yes.

Gun to your head, yeah.

I don't know.

I haven't thought about this.

All right, you're thinking about it now.

Who'd you kill in this room first?

It's a pretty big hypothetical.

Like,

you guys, like, the all right, I'll go.

You know what?

If you don't want to do it, I'll go.

I would, if I, if I had to kill someone in this room, I'd kill sound guy Matt first.

We could afford to lose him.

Shane, who would you?

It would be memes.

I don't know.

Like, Like, maybe, I don't know.

Go for a collateral.

That's a yes.

That's a yes, right, Max?

Yeah, it's for sure me.

And I think you're too.

For sure, too.

Yeah.

The only other person.

Yes, I am for sure, too.

I am for sure.

And the hypothetical then got to the point where you killed everyone but spared Zach.

And then Zach started apologizing

to the staff being like, I'm sorry, they made a mess with this blood.

Like, I'll clean it up.

You had to leave one guy alive to tell the tale.

Yeah.

Tell everyone else what happened here.

That would be that would be Zach.

I tell it straight, Shane.

They're busting his balls at dinner.

They deserved it.

It was justified homicide.

We're cool with Pug now, right?

Yeah, like, like I said, I didn't even hear what Pug said.

Okay,

no?

No.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Well, then, there we go.

We got to the bottom of it.

What about French onion soup?

Never had it.

Oh, yeah.

Shane had his first burrito this week.

Yep.

Shane, would you be open to doing a video series, short video series, of you trying things?

Because I think you would like some of these things.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Maybe we'll do that.

Like, what are, what are the some of the things you

all right?

We'll do onions.

We'll do You've Never Had a Peach.

Anal.

You know, random shit.

Just throw it out there.

Shane tries.

All right.

I'm happy that we've, that the moment has passed.

Yeah.

We, yeah.

It was, it was a good dinner.

It was a good dinner.

It was a great dinner.

Yeah, you did leap up.

I thought you were going to flip the table over.

And then that got me thinking about Jesus flipping tables over.

And I was like, that's not that chill.

Yeah.

Bad pick.

Not Polly.

Chill week.

Hey, listen, chill week.

We still work on chill week.

So, all right.

Great show, boys.

We'll be back in studio on Monday's show, Sunday night.

And let's kick it to ourselves for lottery ball.

Okay, back in studio, dude, numbers.

21.

I think that was PFT.

77.

End of chill week.

Great chill week.

Great chill week.

Had a blast.

Hot dog.

Red.

Hank beat me in the long drive competition.

Did he?

I don't know.

Oh, you think it's going to be close?

I think Hank's got a shot.

I got

as good of a shot as I could have possibly hoped for.

We get five shots each.

That's the problem.

Yeah.

My back is fucked, Hank.

All right, wait.

What was your number?

PFT, you had three?

I took number three.

And then

I had 77.

Shane, you had 21?

Okay.

I'll go six.

99.

Oh,

wow.

It's dirty.

Wow.

It's getting dirty.

99 memes.

I'll go.

Stumped.

Name the number.

One.

Okay, okay.

I like that.

One would be amazing.

11.

31.

I'm rooting for 1.

16.

Yeah.

Yeah, one's good.

That would be so awesome.

Things always remember?

Right it on.

80.

80.

Beams still don't have it.

Love you.

Another week in the books.

Love you guys.

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